Leprosy : A living Death
By Marisela Esparza
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What are names for
Leprosy?
a. Hansen’s Disease
b. Mycobacterium laprae
c. A living death
d. Tuberculosis
e.only a & b
Origens
 First records In Egypt around 600 B.C
 Everywhere in the Bible
 Alexander the Great in rome 62. B.C
 Middle Ages
 Present
Also called Hansen’s Disease in 1869 he
discovered it was a bacteria and not hereditary
as most people thought
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFp0z3ml154
:36-1:10
What is it?
 Mycobacterium leprae
 Chronic infectious
disease that affects the
skin and peripheral
nervous system and the
mucous membranes
 Progressive
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Unsolved Mystery
 Transmission?
 Where it occurs the most?
 Who is most susceptible?
 WHY?
Contact with armadillos increases the risk of
leprosy in Brazil: A case control study.(Original
Article)(Case study).
 Case study : armadillo contact causes leprosy in
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people?
506 leprosy patients 594 controls
68% of people contracted leprosy after exposure
What other contacts can lead to leprosy
Naturally occurring bacteria in the soil
Treatment
 Isolation
 Injecting Chaulmoogra oil
 Antibiotic Dapsone
 MDT
Demographics
 India accounts for 73% of all leprosy cases
 Most occurring leprosy cases in India, Brazil, Burma, Indonesia, Nepal,
Madagascar, Etheopia, Mozambique, D. R. of Congo, and Tanzania.
 Few cases in U.S: California, Louisiana,Florida, and Hawaii.
 1.2 million cases worldwide
 Every year 600,000 more cases
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFp0z3ml154 :36-
1:10
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Questions
Short answer question:
Explain Leprosy. What it is caused by, and what
does it affect in a person’s body
Leprosy is a bacteria that is transmitted through
the respratory tract. It affects the peripheral
nervous system and mucous membranes
causing loss of sensation and progressive
degeneration of the skin and body.
Sources
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“Hansen’s Disease” http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/336868/leprosy
“contact with armadillos increase the risk of leposy” B. Alves
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“History of Leprosy” http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/parasites2005/leprosy
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“leprosy” World of Heaalth online ed. Detroit: Gale Group, 2007. Student Resource CenterGold. Gale. Holy Names High School (BAISL). 11 May 2009
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Scogna, Kathleen. "Leprosy." Gale Encyclopedia of Science. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 4th
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http://health.state.ny.us/diseae/communicable/leprosy