Leprosy is returned?

World Health Organization frightening trend down in the Pacific Islands. In 3 of the 37 countries the incidence of leprosy (leprosy) exceeds the permitted limit (1 case per 10 000 people).

Director of the Western Pacific Regional Office of WHO Shin Young-su announced that threatened were the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Kiribati.
Cause concern to the department, and the Philippines. These islands are considered to be "free from Leprosy "Since the late 1990s, but in recent years cases of incurable diseases where frequent (up to 2000 infected in a year). The same situation is in China.
Shin Young-su strongly recommends that officials of the Ministry of Health set out on a note, to combine their efforts in the fight against this terrible disease. More specific countermeasures leprosy   will be discussed at the three-day conference, which will be attended by heads of national programs for the control of disease leprosy.

For reference:

Leprosy   (leprosy) - a chronic infectious disease that affects most of the skin, mucous membranes, and the peripheral nervous system. Pathogen - leprosy bacillus. The source of infection - a sick man. Infection usually occurs in susceptible individuals under the conditions of prolonged close (family) contact. The incubation period can last up to 10-20 years. There are lepromatous, tuberculoid and undifferentiated types of leprosy.

For lepromatous type characteristic bluish-pink spilled infiltration and bumps on the face and extremities, loss of eyebrows.
When tuberculoid type are formed on the skin and curly annular plaques bluish-brown color.
When undifferentiated type appear pinkish-yellow or hypopigmented spots. For all types of characteristic lesions of the peripheral nerves (thickening, tenderness), followed by the development of trophic disorders (foot ulcers, muscle atrophy, paralysis, contractures, resorption and falling phalanges). Great diagnostic importance is the lack of sensitivity and sweating in the modified areas of the skin.

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