[A young female leprosy patient] World Health Organization. A young girl with facial deformities resulting from leprosy; after sulfone treatments over a period of three to five years, she was "free of symptoms and without deformity." Verso: WHO/6165. Leprosy. No longer a disease apart: Inspired by the new belief that leprosy is no more contagious than tuberculosis ans should be treated as a normal diseases Burma, with an estimated 200,000 leprosy suffers (a prevalance rate of over ten cases per thousand population - twice that of India or Thailand), in 1952 launched a nation-wide, anti-leprosy campaign with the help of the World Health Organization treatment with sulphone drugs. This is how little Ma Boke Sone looked, when she was brought to the Roman catholic Missions Institution in Kemmendino, Ragoon in 1950. She was 8 years old- an already an advanced, seemingly hopeless case of leprosy. Within three years she had made a remarkable recovery - thanks to sulphone treatment. By 1955, she was entirely free of symptoms and without deformity (see photos WHO 6184 and 6184a). 1950 Scheidegger, Ernst, photographer. Still image 1 photoprint. nlm:nlmuid-101436979-img 101436979 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436979 IHM: A013640 English French This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Copyright status: World Health Organization; World Health Organization website