Leprosy

• The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Government of India claim that leprosy has been eliminated from the face of the earth. But the head of a rehabilitation centre for leprosy patients disagrees.
(Deccan Herald)
• PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Jan. 25 (PIA) – Major stakeholders and partners from government and civil society organizations gather here Wednesday for the 1st Leprosy Stakeholders Symposium as a lead-up to World Leprosy Day on January 30, 2012.
(Balita News)
• Film animation company Aardman is to change a scene in their new film which pokes fun at people with leprosy.
(BBC News)
• Q: I have a dead armadillo in my vegetable garden. I've heard that they carry leprosy.
(News-Leader.com)
• The creators of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run are at the centre of an angry storm surrounding their latest film amid accusations of bad taste and disability discrimination.
(The Independent)
• The spread of leprosy can be checked by giving medication to the friends and family of sufferers, recent Dutch research discovered.
(Expatica)
• A film trailer by the makers of Wallace and Gromit has been criticised for poking fun at people with leprosy.
(BBC News)
• MITCHAM'S Helen Nixon weeps as she cradles a dying child with leprosy in Africa. The heartache of the chronic bacterial infection, leaving millions permanently disabled, is everywhere in Niger.
(Whitehorse Leader)
• There are no settlements along the way to Tomey village in Pemagatsel's Dungmin gewog, a day's walk through an oak forest from Tsebar, the nearest roadhead. Tomey has 18 households that are scattered on a gentle treeless slope.
(Kuensel Online)