What is the current (2007) amount of people effected by leprosy?
2006 is okay too, i guess.
2007-03-14 10:27:37 · 4 answers · asked by l337supa94mzor 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
This disease is on the way out. The last numbers I heard in print were world wide approx 220,000 cases. Few countries have problems with it and with medications we have today, in another few years, Leprosy will be a thing of the past.
We must keep our eyes open because one disease we thought was gone, tuberculosis, is on the rise again.
2007-03-14 10:37:14 · answer #1 · answered by bigmikejones 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The global registered prevalence of leprosy at the beginning of 2006 was 219,826 cases. There are now only six countries that have still to reach the elimination target of 1 case per 10,000 population, at the national level.
2007-03-14 17:39:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact the World Health Organization
2007-03-14 19:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by physician 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get some figures here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy
2007-03-14 18:36:22 · answer #4 · answered by MrKnowItAll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋