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Thalidomide relieves symptoms of AIDS and leprosy.
The Food and Drug Administration approved thalidomide as a treatment for leprosy complications.
Another food crisis was reported from Australia, where the Sydney Morning Herald reported that an estimated 800 out of 30,000 flocks of sheep in New South Wales were infected with OJD (Ovine Johnes disease), a wasting disorder similar to leprosy in humans.
So maybe this is the wrong moment to cash in your reputation as a saint--based on two and a half decades spent bathing patients in a South American leprosy clinic--for a job (with 50 percent equity stake) as CEO of Leper.com (soon to be LPRC on the NASDAQ).
For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease , and mongolism has become Down syndrome ; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick . All this name changing is mere logomancy which neither changes the fact that there is something wrong with the afflicted nor, in the long run, our attitudes towards them.