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We have a cure, so why is SE Asia still a hotbed of leprosy?
We have a cure, so why is SE Asia still a hotbed of leprosy?
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016
Known to humanity since ancient times, leprosy was for thousands of years thought to be an incurable source of deformities and the accompanying social stigma.