World Leprosy Week 2010

Leper!, originally uploaded by iwishmynamewasmarsha.

When talking about disease it is all too easy to think that a cure is everything. Despite advances in medical science many people are still affected by the disease, in the last year around 250,000 were diagnosed with leprosy, one every two minutes.

Text taken from:

http://www.leprahealthinaction.org/world-leprosy-day/