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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.
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.
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).
Thalidomide relieves symptoms of AIDS and leprosy.
While IFN-γ is not highly expressed in joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, diseases such as erosive tuberculoid leprosy [ 23 24 ] and psoriatic arthritis [ 25 ] are associated with high Th1 cytokines such as IFN-γ [ 26 ] . In these conditions, tissue destruction has been shown to correlate with Th1-mediated immune responses and the production of IFN-γ, indicating that osteoclastogenesis may occur in the presence of elevated IFN-γ [ 27 ] .