After declaring the country free of leprosy in 2005, the Central government is now grappling with fresh cases of the stigmatised disease that have surfaced in the country, accounting for a staggeri

Bihar is going to be leprosy free state with the number of such patients declining to 0.89 per cent per 10,000 people by March 31, an official said on Tuesday.

"Bihar has almost become a leprosy-fre

India reports over 50 percent of all leprosy cases globally, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

In a written statement, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said: "Out of 228,474 new leprosy cases

Six years after leprosy was declared officially eliminated in India, officials and doctors are warning that the disfiguring disease is spreading in poverty-stricken pockets of the country.

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