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...receive adequate medical attention, Li had to leave her family and travel to Carville, La., where the U.S. department of Public Health operates a treatment center and longterm care facility for HD victims. The center is the only one in the continental United States...
...their misfortune, most of those older patients are optimistic for Li. They know she need not share their fate. Medical advances made since the time of their affliction have given new hope to HD victims throughout the world. Carville researchers are responsible for many of the most important strides, particularly for developing the sulphone-based drug, dapsone...
...cheaply produced tablet free from serious side-effects, dapsone has become the world's chief method of combating leprosy. Although the bacteria causing HD display increasing signs of developing resistance to the drug, dapsone remains an effective means of arresting the illness when a patient suffers from the pure-tuberculoid strain, a less-severe type of HD. Victims with this form of illness can usually expect to lead perfectly normal lives without any of the scars and deformities ordinarily associated with leprosy, if doctors diagnose the condition at an early stage...
...editor-in-chief of Star, a bi-monthly tabloid which reports world-wide developments in the battle against HD, Boudreaux oversees one of the most unusual operations in the publishing business. Every one of his 22 staff writers and production personnel suffers from some form of HD. Those who have not lost feeling in their hands do the typing and press work, while others write articles and perform whatever tasks their handicaps will allow...
...such ignorance, however detrimental to those with HD, is somewhat understandable, considering the rare occurrence of leprosy in this country. Although HD has existed at endemic levels for some time in other parts of the world, such as India or Central Africa, only some 3000 patients presently receive treatment for the condition in this country. Because the disease is impossible to detect in its incubation stage, health experts will double or even triple that figure when estimating the actual population of HD sufferers here. Even so, the number remains minute...