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Sinaloa Mexico first in Leprosy

Tonka

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http://www.noroeste.com.mx/publicaciones.php?id=774977
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Sinaloa Mexico first in Leprosy
Martin Gonzalez
04/26/2012



Two to three new cases of leprosy per month are seen in the Dermatology Center in Culiacan, Sinaloa disease that places first of the 11 states where it operates. Moraila Guillermo Alfonso Moya, director of the state assembly center, reported that leprosy given the entity is different from the rest of the country and the most evil. "Here are two to three new cases of leprosy per month. come to be about 12, 15 or 20 cases a year, over those already registered. Leprosy in Sinaloa is a leprosy which is not taken into the rest of the country, which is diffuse leprosy. That is, diffuse or Lazarina leprosy. The patient is not balls, it is not anything more that follows the hair, eyebrows, eyelashes. The one we have here is the most evil, "he said. One difficulty in detecting cases of leprosy is that it is a silent disease, he said, because it can take months or even years to realize a patient who has it, another is missing more awareness among general practitioners for their detection. "It is extremely urgent that medical schools be given the chair of dermatology in a very special issue of leprosy because general practitioners or doctors who will do their social service communities, can encounter sick and do not recognize them. not know what they have, or make a fuss if they find it. And that neither one nor the other is good. " The dermatologist said that leprosy is curable, even in patients with advanced disease, which a year of treatment and not have mycobacteria in their body, although the damage occurred, such as eyebrow or drop engarru?adas hands and remain. The studies and treatment are free, he said, in all health centers. LEPROSY IN SINALOA 2012 9 cases 2011 11 cases * So far this year.
 
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