Leprosy ; includes what bacteria it is caused by, the orgin of the disease, how many people are affected by it in the united states and in alaska during 1999 and 2000, and more. 3 pages long.

Leprosy is very dangerous for your personal health. It can make you skin fall off. Leprosy slowly eats away at you body. It is deadly to all genders, all ages, all sizes and all races.

Another name for leprosy is Hansen's Disease. Leprosy is caused by the organism mycobacterium leprae. The pathogen that carries it is bacteria. Throughout the years people have suspected that inhaling and touching the bacteria could spread leprosy.

Symptoms of leprosy appear three to five years after contact. Symptoms include; redness or white patches of skin, lumps on several parts of the body, and fingers and toes may curl inward. The bacteria of leprosy can sometimes cause blindness. If leprosy is not treated nerves can be severely damaged causing no control over some parts of the body. Leprosy has two common forms; tuberculoid, and lepromatous. Both forms produce lesions on the skin, but the lepromatous form is very severe, producing large disfiguring nodules.

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Mycobacterium leprae

Mycobacterium leprae, one of the causative agents ...

Tuberculoid os known to cause tuberculosis and lepromatous is known to cause leprosy.

The main challenges for Hansen's Disease is elimination efforts are to reach populations that have not yet received multi-drug therapy services, improve detection of the disease, and provide patients with good quality health care, and free medications.

Hansen's Disease in the Western Pacific is a particular problem. In 1999, there were 640,000 cases in the World, and 108 cases in the United States of America. In the year 2000, there were 738,284 cases in the World and 131 cases in the United States of America. This shows an increase of 98,284 cases in the World in one year's time and an increase of 23 cases in the United States of America in one year's time.

Leprosy is nationally notifiable in the United States. In the past and...