Leprosy
Have you ever thought of what it would feel like to not have to physically feel anything? People who have leprosy have this problem. They loss total sense of all feelings in every single nerv in their entire body. If you can't feel how do you know when your touching something hot, or very cold? The answer is you can't, most people who have long term leprosy eventually lose hands or feet because they don't know that they are touching something hot enough to burn their hands off. Leprosy isn't highly contagious but there are over a hundred cases per year of it in the United States alone. It's usually found in tropical regions such as Africa and India. The sympotoms of leprosy are muscle weakness, numbness in hands and feet, and lack of feeling if not treated these sympotoms can become very severe. Back before Scientist dicovered a treatment people with leprosy had they used to be sent of to islands as a suclusion away from people who didn't have it. These islands were known as a sort of safe place for people with leprosy, the people there got married and had children as normal people would but when they had the kids they would get them taken away from them because these children would be born without leprosy. Today there is a cure for leprosy and the people can live a full life, without any problems at all. As long as they take their meds and go to doctors apointments.
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ReplyDeleteThis blog was a very interesting topic to discuss. I have only really heard about leprosy being around in the olden days. I didn't know that it was still common today! The statistics were a bit low, but they were interesting. My first question is, what is the cure for leprosy? Is there surgery involved, or is it just some kind of medication? Do the people in the tropical areas such as Africa and India have a way to prevent leprosy?
Otherwise, this post was very informative, interesting, and gave me a better awareness of leprosy altogether!
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ReplyDeleteBefore reading this post I was not fully aware of what leprosy was. I learned something very interesting by reading your post. I could not imagine not having any feeling in my body. One thing I wondered about was when you said "Leprosy isn't highly contagious"; does that mean that it could be contagious in certain situations or is it a genetic type of disaese. Also, mention in the comment above, there doesn't seem to be severe cases presently(that I've heard of). Is that because of all the research and technology that found ways people could get through leprosy safely? I think this post was very informative and put in your own words very well. I learned a lot about leprosy from it. Great job