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Leprosy is a chronic myco-bacterial disease, primarily affecting the peripheral nervous system and secondarily involving skin and certain other issues. There is a wide variation in the way the disease affects various persons, which depends primarily on differences in immune status across individuals. In some cases the disease involves only one peripheral nerve or causes a single skin blemish. In others it produces countless nodules and other types of skin lesions, involves many peripheral nerves and leads to damaged vital organs such as eyes, larynx, testes and bones. The deformities caused by leprosy include depressed nose, paralysis of eyelids, wrinkling of the skin of the face, disfigurement of earlobes, claw hands and feet. These deformities are one of the main reasons for the prejudice leprosy patients suffer from.
