Sentence examples for Hansen's disease from inspiring English sources
noun
The disease leprosy, caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.
Hansen's disease is now rare and treatable.
Hansen's disease [ 8] continues to manifest protean clinical features that include rheumatic musculoskeletal disorders as demonstrated in this report.
Elsewhere, however, leprosy (or, as some now feel it should be called, Hansen's disease) persists, even if it's becoming relatively rare.
"Even the healthy relatives of people with Hansen's disease had to leave their homes.
At the Hansen's disease centers, such serious foot problems are often prevented with special shoes and physical therapy.
The undeserved suffering associated with leprosy — or Hansen's disease, as those affected prefer to call it — is profound.
They have already been pretty successful at "rebranding" the infection as "Hansen's disease", at least in medical circles.
"And those are the ones we know about," said Dr. William Levis, attending physician at Bellevue Hospital's Hansen's Disease Clinic.
He tried to appeal to public opinion by establishing the Museum of Hansen's Disease (MHD) and hosting a series of symposia about the policies on HD[ 96].
"It's always been a curiosity," says Richard Truman, a microbiologist at the National Hansen's Disease Program which is housed at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
