Leprosy Mailing List – April 29, 2015
Ref.: (LML) The Missing Millions: A Threat to the Elimination of Leprosy
From: Pranab Kumar Das, Birmingham, UK
Dear Pieter,
Please refer to the email by Smith et al. attached article appeared in Plos NTD (LML April 25, 2015) and the very interesting reply to it by Dr Shen Jianping (LML April 28, 2015).
I must say that I do appreciate and rather agree with the points mentioned by Dr Jianping. At this juncture, my reserved comment on the article by Smith et al is that the article has been written as kind of a special note from a ‘think tank team' with self-motivated jargons from specialised experts. But when reading through it, the message comes through to me like note from a team of preachers.
It is high time that we should accept the fact that (I quote) “the battle front against leprosy will shrink and will not spread globally though the disease like tuberculosis will not be eradicated per se".
It should also be emphasised that the treatment of leprosy with MDT or any other needs to be personalised rather than through routine WHO protocol one for all for one, basis.
More in future.
Professor Pranab Kumar Das
LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder
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