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Dr Lobo D Dr Krishnan S Dr BanerjeeINTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDThe 44th World Health Assembly in May 1991adopted a resolution calling on member states tointensify efforts to attain elimination o. 1 Epidemiology and Burden of Disease WHO Geneva (EBD/GPE) 2 Dmaternal sepsisft 15 Global Burden of Disease 2000 Denning . DW. 1. , Pegorie M. 2. , . Welfare . W. 2. ,3. 24th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Barcelona, . Spain, May 2014. 1. National . Aspergillosis. Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester and The University of Manchester, Manchester . Leprosy Defeated;. Lives Transformed. Leprosy – Ancient History?. 600 – 700 new cases every day. One every 2 minutes. At least 4 million people already disabled. Leprosy . is. a 21. st. century disease. Presented to. Southern California SPIN. 14 January 2011. Originally presented to. Professional . Development . Workshop. SEPG . North America. 22-25 March 2010. Rick Hefner. Director, Process Assurance. KGMU. Top five states in India which have highest number of leprosy cases. State 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13. Uttar Pradesh 27,473 25,509 24,627 24,222. Jeffrey Soule, FAICP. AN URGENT ISSUE. Asia alone will add 800,000,000 . Urban residents over the next 15 years. Speed of urbanization. . Rich and poor gap. Environmental degradation. Resilience. Energy conservation. Leprosy is also commonly called Hansen’s Disease, after G.H. Armauer Hansen who discovered the cause of the disease in 1873. . The disease is caused by the bacteria . Mycobacterium leprae . or . M. lepromatosis . TIRUMANI,CHENGALPATTU. HISTORY. . 1924. Lady Wellington Leprosy Sanatorium at . Tirumani. 1924 to 1939 . Managed by Church of Scotland. Dr. Paul Brand devoted his life for the reconstructive Surgery. PRESUMPTIONS. RULE . 131 . BURDEN . OF PROOF . AND PRESUMPTIONS. Proof – the establishment of a . requisite degree . of belief in the mind of the trier . of fact . as to the facts in issue; the . cumulation. Assistant Professor. Dermatology. 29. th. . sep. 2017. Cardinal signs of Leprosy. 1. . Anaesthetic. /. hypoaeshetic. skin lesion or lesions. 2. Enlarged peripheral nerve\s with impairment of sensations in the area supplied. U.T. of Dadra & Nagar Haveli. . . S. Krishna Chaitanya,. MD (NHM),. Dadra & Nagar Haveli.. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop Vol.:52:e-20180103, 2019 OPEN ACCESShttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ TABLE 5: Leprosy National Program staff’s proposals for better leprosy management. Health st Leprosy is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium leprae Leprosy is a bacterial disease of the skin and nerves, which can progress to involve internal organs if it is not treated. In some forms By: Emily and Zaira. What causes Leprosy?. Mycobacterium Leprae. Named after: M. Leprae. Targets Schwann cells. Airborne. Kingdom: Bacteria. Phylum: Actinobacteria. Order: . Actinomycetales. Family:.