New Cases of Leprosy in India at Alarming Stage

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By M. SARASWATHI<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">NEW DELHI, India   (NNN-Bernama) -- New leprosy cases in India have reached an alarming stage as it accounted for a staggering 55.5 per cent of new global infections in 2010, said a news report.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of the 228,474 leprosy cases detected worldwide in 2010, the figure for India stood at 126,800, International Leprosy Union (ILU) (India)’s president S.D. Gokhale told the Press Trust of India. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“If the union and state governments do not take serious note of this fact and initiate effective steps to eradicate leprosy, the problem will become more acute,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India has more than 1,000 leper colonies. -- NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

New Cases of Leprosy in India at Alarming Stage

By M. SARASWATHI NEW DELHI, India   (NNN-Bernama) -- New leprosy cases in India have reached an alarming stage as it accounted for a stag...

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