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Two cases of Leprosy in Nuevo Laredo
It is assumed that the disease is virtually missing from the last century, affecting humans for thousands of years
Juan Manuel Reyes Cruz / Correspondent
In Nuevo Laredo, this is the case for the existence of two people with leprosy. SPECIAL photo.
NUEVO LAREDO, June 19. - In Nuevo Laredo, this is the case for the existence of two people with leprosy.
This type of illness lasts about ten years to incubate and show symptoms or damage to the skin. The patient who has recently appeared about eight years of being infected.
"It is not a disease to be demonized, it is not as severe as in the movies, which the patient is falling pieces of skin that is added to a syndrome more severe leprosy, but a hundred years ago there is a case "argued the head of the department of health jurisdiction microbacteriosis V in Tamaulipas, Dr. Jose Alberto Castillo Ramon Muniz.
This disease is and find a solution within a year following an appropriate treatment, if taken properly, is eliminated in 12 months.
Leprosy, a disease virtually disappeared since the last century, affecting humans for thousands of years and has been historically incurable and stigmatizing. Its common for every 15 years appears with different symptoms.
"The only symptom is a skin pigmentation, ie, they are dark spots on the skin, feels no pain, but nothing serious as long as their drugs, the person can live a normal life, even go to work, "he said.
In the past 10 years, only two people have reported the disease in Nuevo Laredo, a man of 52 years with more than 10 with the condition and a woman aged 62 with 54 padeci?ndola.