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Leprosy in Australia: a forgotten disease
There have been recent reports that leprosy is on the rise in Australia with 20 cases reported in Western Australia in the last five years.
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Over thirty years ago I travelled up North to Kununurra, some area’s had strange & unusual smell’s. I asked locals about some strange movement Of people in rags hiding amongst the high rock area’s & they had informed me about people with Leprosy hiding up there. I never went near this place as I was warned back then but often wondered if there where so many cases way back then, how is it not spread more so over thirty years later in time?