when was the last reported case of leprosy
Leprosy Leprosy is curable with a treatment known as multidrug therapy.[3] Treatment for paucibacillary leprosy is with the medications dapsone and rifampicin for six months.[2] Treatment for multibacillary leprosy consists of rifampicin, dapsone, and clofazimine for 12 months.[2] A number of other antibiotics may also be used.[2] These treatments are provided free of charge by the World Health Organization.[3] Globally in 2012, the number of chronic cases of leprosy was 189,000, down from some 5.2 million in the 1980s.[3][8][9] The number of new cases was 230,000.[3] Most new cases occur in 16 countries, with India accounting for more than half.[3][2] In the past 20 years, 16 million people worldwide have been cured of leprosy.[3] About 200 cases are reported per year in the United States.[10]
Dementia with Lewy bodies DLB is one of the three most common types of dementia, along with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.[13][17][a] Together with Parkinson's disease dementia, it is one of two dementias classified as the Lewy body dementias.[4] It typically begins after the age of 50, and about 0.4% of people over 65 are affected.[2] In the latter stages of the disease, people with DLB may be unable to care for themselves.[18] Life expectancy following diagnosis is about eight years.[3] The abnormal deposits of protein that are the underlying mechanism of the disease were discovered in 1912 by Frederic Lewy, and diffuse Lewy body disease was first described by Kenji Kosaka in 1976.[8]