MDT close to leprosy eradication
A multi-drug treatment (MDT) recommended by the World Health Organization, consisting of dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine is close to eradicating leprosy, the global agency reports. Three countries, Brazil, East Timor and Nepal account for a quarter of new infections reported this year.
In 1995, the WHO began a program of delivering free combination-drug therapy to patients affected by the "not highly infectious" Mycobacterium leprae, also known as Hansen's disease, in order to avoid problems arising from drug resistant mutations. Since that time, the WHO estimates that an estimated 14 million people have been cured of leprosy.
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