Got almost perfect Good work Mike Wallis Leprosy         Leprosy or Hansen's disease, is a chronic, infectious disease that mainly affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves. A rod shaped bacillus named Mycobacterium leprea, causes the virus. Mycobacterium leprea is very similar to the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen's disease, is because it was first identified in 1874 by a Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen.                  Leprosy appears in …showed first 75 words of 483 total…

…showed last 75 words of 483 total…Today drugs such as dapsone, rifampin, and clofazimine are used alongside a healthy diet. If killed too quickly, bacilli may cause a systematic reaction. The reaction is called erythema nodosum leprosum, or ENL may cause progressive impairment of the nerves. Corticosteroids control such reactions.         Of all contagious diseases Leprosy is maybe the least infectious. New patients are rarely ever quarantined. Most patients are treated on an outpatient basis. A Leprosy vaccine is currently under development.