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‘Constant danger’: Life after leprosy, a long neglected disease
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‘Constant danger’: Life after leprosy, a long neglected disease

M. leprae, one of the causative agents of leprosy. Credit: Public Domain Dan Izzett has lived with leprosy’s effects on his body for 70 years, and has lost much to what he calls an “ancient, fascinating, very unkind disease”. The Zimbabwean former civil engineering technician and pastor was diagnosed at the age of 25 in...