This young man has recently been diagnosed with multibacillary leprosy. He has already developed visible deformities, indicating diagnostic delay. For many years, he was told, he was suffering from a fungal skin infection. Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease, caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the skin and peripheral nerves. Indonesia continues to have the third highest number of leprosy cases in the world.
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Yoppy Pieter