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How to use the word leprosy in a Sentence?

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Treating leprosy in humans is relatively straightforward, especially if it's diagnosed early enough, but for animals that aren't habituated to humans, such as these particular populations, it's very difficult to administer antibiotics. There are constraints to treating animals for leprosy and we have to consider the ethical implications of darting chimpanzees, so that makes the question of treatment a complicated one.

Kimberley Hockings

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re not going all out to prevent leprosy, the contacts are not traced. Even though the government has good regulations in place, enforcement on the ground is patchy.

Paulus Manek

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We can use the impetus we have now from COVID to deal with some of those diseases, like leprosy, which was around thousands of years ago and is still around, we get outraged by diseases that kill, but not by diseases that disable.

Thoko Elphick-Pooley

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

These are not just worries. If we compare the data... this shows the efforts have gone down last year although this is inevitable due to COVID-19, we hope the government can keep its attention on leprosy despite its current priority on COVID-19.

Asken Sinaga

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The crusaders fought war, and they won leprosy . (Les croisés firent la guerre, et ils gagnèrent la lèpre)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The physician in India who is familiar with leprosy would see a patch and quickly do a test for a loss of sensation. Here, you wouldn't even test for loss of sensation, because it's not that common to see.

Abinash Virk

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Children with leprosy don't get a chance, they start their lives excluded because they have no more fingers or they cannot close their eyes any more, and you see how they suffer because they were not diagnosed in time.

Ann Aerts

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If leprosy is not controlled in the world, we'll continue to see it in immigration.

David Scollard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Leprosy still exists, [But it] is getting limited to a small number of countries.

Pemmaraju Ranganadha

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I ask good people. I don't want to sing with crap people, so I mean, I ask people who are great vocalists, but I'm not going to point out anyone, i have asked several people. Sometimes I feel like I have the plague, or leprosy. Even so, as far as Reba McEntire is concerned, Kelly Clarkson does n’t need Reba McEntire help.

Kelly Clarkson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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