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Indonesia Has Third-Highest Number of Leprosy Cases in World: Minister
February 28, 2012
Indonesia has the third-highest number of new leprosy cases in the world after India and Brazil, Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said.
?Indonesia?s leprosy burden is still relatively high. The number of new cases is still relatively high and so is the frequency of the disease having caused physical deformities,? the minister said at a function to mark World Leprosy Day on Monday.
For 2010, India had reported 126,600 new leprosy cases and Brazil 34,894, she said.
For the same year, Indonesia had reported 17,012 new cases, with 1,882 or 10.71 percent of them discovered when the persons involved were already in a second-degree state of deformity or suffering from visible deformities.
In addition, in 1,904 of those cases, or 11.2 percent, the victims were children...
Indonesia Has Third-Highest Number of Leprosy Cases in World: Minister
February 28, 2012
Indonesia has the third-highest number of new leprosy cases in the world after India and Brazil, Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said.
?Indonesia?s leprosy burden is still relatively high. The number of new cases is still relatively high and so is the frequency of the disease having caused physical deformities,? the minister said at a function to mark World Leprosy Day on Monday.
For 2010, India had reported 126,600 new leprosy cases and Brazil 34,894, she said.
For the same year, Indonesia had reported 17,012 new cases, with 1,882 or 10.71 percent of them discovered when the persons involved were already in a second-degree state of deformity or suffering from visible deformities.
In addition, in 1,904 of those cases, or 11.2 percent, the victims were children...