US EditionVienna General Hospital treated leprosy patients
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The 60-year-old man has since been discharged from the hospital. He apparently contracted the virus while traveling abroad.
The 60-year-old man was diagnosed in April. The Vienna University Clinic wrote to Telex that the patient is being treated in an outpatient department of the hospital and there is no risk of infection.
For decades, the infectious disease leprosy was considered to have been defeated, and now a new case has been discovered – the "crown" spoke to the person affected. The first symptoms had already become apparent a year and a half ago, but no one knew what insidious illness was behind it. "It started with slight paralysis on the soles of the feet. At the beginning I thought that this would disappear by itself. However, the deaf spots became more …
Leprosy is a skin and nerve infection caused by two types of bacteria that cannot be distinguished based on their symptoms – Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis – and is characterized by severely disfiguring skin inflammations and continuous physical and then mental deterioration. The infectious disease, feared for thousands of years, still occurs in millions of cases worldwide today - writes <a href="https://egeszsegvonal.gov.hu…
In Vienna, a patient was diagnosed with leprosy. The disease is considered to have been eradicated in Europe. Currently, the man is in outpatient treatment.
According to the hospital, the 60-year-old is in outpatient treatment.
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