Leprosy Research Paper
History of Leprosy
Leprosy has long been a well-known chronic & infectious disease affecting the skin and nerves from biblical times through modernity, infecting not only physical health in the society but the development research into new bacterium diseases. This contagious disease can infect an individual by direct person-to-person contact, making it very difficult for them to live normal lifestyles. In result, this disease can cause people to lack the feeling/numbness in the limbs, disfigurement, and nerve damage in the arms and legs. This causes them to not feel anything, including muscle weakness and abnormal limbs. In the year 2000, there was 738,284 cases of leprosy identified worldwide, found mostly in India and developing countries. Researchers are not certain who or what started this plague, but there is groundbreaking history behind all of this. The development in research has changed a lot from biblical times to present time, changing history …show more content…
C., Gillis, T. P., Krahenbuhl, J. L., & Franzblau, S. G. (1998, July 3). Leprosy. . Retrieved July 19, 2012, from Discover SMU Libraries.
-Hastings, R. C., Gillis, T. P., Krahenbuhl, J. L., and Frankzblau conducted a research paper, talking about the two drugs named (MDT) & Dapsone. Lockwood, D. N. (2005, July 25). Leprosy. Medicine, 33(7). Retrieved July 19, 2012, from Discover SMU Libraries. Michman, Jozeph, S. David Sperling, and Louis Isaac Rabinowitz. "Leprosy." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Vol. 12. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 650-653. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 July 2012.
- Michman, Jozeph, Sperling, and Rabinowit conducted a research book during the biblical times when leprosy wasn 't known (identified) as a bacteria. BROWN, R. "Leprosy (in the Bible)." New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 507-510. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 July
Leprosy has long been a well-known chronic & infectious disease affecting the skin and nerves from biblical times through modernity, infecting not only physical health in the society but the development research into new bacterium diseases. This contagious disease can infect an individual by direct person-to-person contact, making it very difficult for them to live normal lifestyles. In result, this disease can cause people to lack the feeling/numbness in the limbs, disfigurement, and nerve damage in the arms and legs. This causes them to not feel anything, including muscle weakness and abnormal limbs. In the year 2000, there was 738,284 cases of leprosy identified worldwide, found mostly in India and developing countries. Researchers are not certain who or what started this plague, but there is groundbreaking history behind all of this. The development in research has changed a lot from biblical times to present time, changing history …show more content…
C., Gillis, T. P., Krahenbuhl, J. L., & Franzblau, S. G. (1998, July 3). Leprosy. . Retrieved July 19, 2012, from Discover SMU Libraries.
-Hastings, R. C., Gillis, T. P., Krahenbuhl, J. L., and Frankzblau conducted a research paper, talking about the two drugs named (MDT) & Dapsone. Lockwood, D. N. (2005, July 25). Leprosy. Medicine, 33(7). Retrieved July 19, 2012, from Discover SMU Libraries. Michman, Jozeph, S. David Sperling, and Louis Isaac Rabinowitz. "Leprosy." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Vol. 12. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 650-653. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 July 2012.
- Michman, Jozeph, Sperling, and Rabinowit conducted a research book during the biblical times when leprosy wasn 't known (identified) as a bacteria. BROWN, R. "Leprosy (in the Bible)." New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 507-510. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 July