Viewpoint: Leprosy after the year 2000

Leprosy and its Removal until 2000

از قدیم ترین ایام و در هر فرهنگی، جذام همواره چشم اندازی از وحشت و افسون بوده است. در هیچ مورد دیگری، بیمار را زنده به گور نکرده اند، او را بسته بر ستون نسوزانده اند و یا با زنگوله و شمعی در دست ، از شهرها اخراج نکرده اند. بدآموزیها، ترس، جهل و اعتقادات خرافی موجب شده است که جذام بیش از هر بلای دیگری، در میان مردم وحشت و هراس ایجاد کند.

Update on leprosy in immigrants in the United States: status in the year 2000.

The World Health Organization established a goal in 1991 of "elimination of leprosy as a public health problem by the year 2000." Although prevalence rates of leprosy have decreased in many geographic areas, it is clear that in some countries where leprosy is endemic, such as Brazil and India, this goal will not be reached. Leprosy is rare in the United States, but 85% of detected cases are in ...

Prospects of global elimination of leprosy as a public health problem by the year 2000.

In this critical review, the perspective of world elimination of leprosy is analyzed as depending on three factors: 1) efficacy of antileprosy multidrug therapy; 2) difficultys in implementing pharmacologic therapy and other control programs; 3) non-medical conditions in endemic areas. Based on there factors, a pessimistic view arises related to the WHO goal of leprosy elimination by the year 2...

The After-Treatment of Leprosy

Progress in year 2000

The concept of superfluidity applies to both macroscopic and microscopic objects. In both cases, there is no dissipation or drag force as long as the objects move with a velocity less than the so-called critical velocity. A moving macroscopic object creates a complicated flow field. Above a certain velocity, vortices are created. In contrast, the physics of moving impurities, which are microsco...