Over 7 Million Lepers
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ris officiaUy estimated that there are 7,000,000 lepers in the world. But the World Health Organisation (Geneva) is of opinion that the actual figure is considerably larger.
The WHO says that, as the re sult of medical progress in the control of the disease, lepers should no longer be treated as outcasts.
They should be interned in special centres only when there is danger of infection—and that danger is less than generally thought. WHO experts say that leprosy is much less contagious than tuberculosis.