Friday, February 12, 2010

The leprosy still persists in the world

When one thinks about the illness of the leprosy, one goes back to ancient epochs. But it is important to emphasize that, regrettably, the leprosy is still not extinct illness, which persists in the current world, which affects thousands of persons. In this occasion, one will allude to this topic and to his situation in the world.

Leprosy

Before starting with this note, it would be important to define that is the leprosy. It is a chronic illness caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae and that until beginning of the year 2009 it was affecting about 213.000 persons, informs the web site of the World Organization of the Health (WHO), that he adds that the most affected continents are Asia and Africa.

It is important to add that the leprosy is curable, if it is that the stated treatment of a precocious way is received, he published the web of the WHO, which added that this avoids all form of disability associated with this illness.

At the end of January there was carried out a new edition of the World Day of the Patients of Leprosy. In the frame of the above mentioned international date, from the Vatican there was realized a series of declarations related to this illness that at present fond of the world in the full XXIst century, in spite of being a sanitary problem that collaborates mistakenly to remote epochs.

In occasion, the president of the Pontifical Advice for the Pastoral one of the Health, monsignor Zygmunt Zimowski, said that the date chosen to make aware the world population about an illness as serious as the leprosy is not only a day of reflection on the victims of this pathology, but also is for solidarse with the brothers and sisters who are suffering, reported the official web site of the Vatican.

Between other things, it called the international community and the governments of all the countries to develop and to strengthen the necessary strategies to fight the leprosy, published the web.

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