LML) Reliability of global leprosy statistics

Leprosy Mailing List – February 1,  2018

Ref.:  LML) Reliability of global leprosy statistics 

From:  Claudio Salgado, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

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Note editor: this message has been sent earlier, but not apparently not received by everyone!

 

Dear Pieter,

Could you share our comment published on The Lancet Infectious Diseases with the leprosy mailing list participants? We discussed the last leprosy numbers made available by WHO on 2017. Are leprosy case numbers truly reliable?

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2818%2930012-4/fulltext#.WmqavNG5KVI.email

 

Thanks,

 

Claudio

 

Note editor: I would like to refer to an editorial in Leprosy Review by P.E.M. Fine "Global Leprosy Statistics: a cause of pride, or frustration?" Lepr Rev (2006) 77,295-297

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