LEPROSY – GENERAL INFORMATION

But it can cause deformity, disfigurement, paralysis and misery. A variety of drugs can control and cure the disease. Dapsone is widely used, and can eliminate the infectivity of an individual after a few months.

Treatment may need to be continued for many years.

Rifampicin, an antibiotic, also used to treat ÒÂ, has recently been shown to be effective in curing the disease and may render the person non-infective in a matter of weeks.

Those with the tuberculoid form of the disease do not need isolation.

And those with the lepromatous form can return to their community once the drugs have rendered them non-infectious.

A new vaccine has been developed in Britain and proved successful in the laboratory.

Field trials will soon take place, but it may take 10 years of use before accurate knowledge of its effectiveness is available.

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