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There is nerve damage with Leprosy but you also get lesions and some times growths on your body. quote:Early signs include spots on the skin that may be slightly red, darker or lighter than normal skin. The spots may also become numb and have lost hair. Often they appear on the arms, legs or back. Sometimes the only sign may be numbness in a finger or toe. If left untreated, hands can become numb and small muscles are paralyzed, leading to curling of the fingers and thumb. When leprosy attacks nerves in the legs, it interrupts communication of sensation in the feet. The feet can then be damaged by untended wounds and infection. If the facial nerve is affected, a person loses the blinking reflex of the eye, which can eventually lead to dryness, ulceration and blindness. Bacteria entering the mucous lining of the nose can lead to internal damage and scarring which in time causes the nose to collapse. Untreated, leprosy can cause deformity, crippling and blindness. You are right about limbs falling off being a secondary thing due to the nerve damage though.
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Kopijeger posted:Funny thing about how he insists on calling it "Hansen's disease": G. A. Hansen was a physician who discovered the Mycobacterium leprae, the causastive agent of leprosy. Apparently, some people prefer to name it after him because there is a stigma attached to the traditional name "leprosy". Considering that these maladists apparently do their thing to be counter-cultural or what have you, it seems unlikely that they would use any euphemisms for any of the conditions they inflict on themselves. It is just much cooler to refer to it by the lesser known name you know?
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Jul 8, 2016 11:53
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