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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.
Dominance of particular HLA alleles conferring resistance, and/or recessiveness of susceptibility (poor outcome) alleles, have been documented for schistosomiasis [ 24 ] , leprosy [ 25 ] , acute lymphoblastic leukemia (for which an infectious cause is hypothesized) [ 26 ] , and hepatitis B (in this case the outcome was vaccine responsiveness) [ 27 ] .
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.
The Food and Drug Administration approved thalidomide as a treatment for leprosy complications.
Thalidomide relieves symptoms of AIDS and leprosy.