Lepromatous Leprosy - Articles
Leprosy Mission International visits Nata clinic
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Pedro M.
A visiting Dr. checks for sensation in Tefo's handsUnlike many African countries, Botswana has a very low rate of Leprosy. We currently have only 5 active cases in the entire country and 35 non active cases. Tefo is the only villager that has suffered from Leprosy (also known as Hanson’s ...
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Feelings....Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feelings.....
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Shauna M.
... enient when my heel got caught in a heavy sound proof door and when I sliced open my thumb on a can, both cuts drawing blood. I was reminded of people with Hansen's Disease, leprosy, who have to maintain a vigilance about their bodies in order to avoid injury. Leprosy destroys peripheral nerves and leaves the sufferer open to infection because inj ...
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Useful list of medical history museums worldwide
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Thomas S.
... is Orvostörténeti MúzeumBuenos Aires, Argentinien Museo de Historia de la Medicina y de la Cirugía “Vicente Aníbal Risolía”Carville, Lou, USA The National Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) MuseumChicago, IL, USA International Museum of Surgical ScienceCleveland, OH, USA Dittrick Museum of Medical HistoryDürnhof, Österreich Museum für Medizin-Metereol ...
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Plague and TB, etc - Where are They Now?
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Lyn S.
Jennifer Wilson of CBC News (Canada) gives a well-researched update on six world-class scourges; plague, TB, smallpox, leprosy, yellow fever, measles and mumps, and polio. She lists current hot spots in case you are thinking of traveling.
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Transformed By Gratitude
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Take Root and Write ..
... we can take our daily provisions for granted. My mother shared with me that this type of out
casting is similar to that in Jesus' days when those who had the skin disease
of leprosy had to live outside the villages because they were considered
unclean. I came across a very
powerful
illustration about "gratitude" in the book of Luke during one of m ...
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INDIAN BUG IS THE ANCESTOR OF CROHN'S DISEASE BACTERIA
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nitinsyal
... The 'generalist' bacteria infect anything from cockroaches to human and are capable of surviving in soil and water as against human adapted 'specialists' such as tubercle and leprosy bacilli. TB, a disease that killed about 1.7 million humans last year alone, is caused by a member of the Mycobacterial family of pathogens. The finding further sugge ...
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Disease.com
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Lisa LaMendola
... heir site and LOVE IT! So much great information in one place...Did you know that the #1 killer of women was AIDS? Or that what the TOP FIVE Infection Diseases are? (Polio, Leprosy, Mad Cow Disease, Rabies, HIV/AIDS)Have you ever head of Alice in Wonderland
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More than Skin Deep
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Jen ..
Mark 1:40-45
A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
There are so many thing this one sentence really says. Until I started digging th ...
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