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Published on: December 15, 2011
Locally acquired Hansen's disease in north Queensland
H Archibald1, P F Fitzpatrick, G H Rée
1Paul Hopkins Medical Centre, Mt Pleasant, QLD.
Abstract:
Hansen's disease (leprosy) is rare in Australia and usually imported from endemic areas. We report a 23-year-old white male with multibacillary leprosy who had lived all his life in North Queensland and initially appeared to have no risk factors. However, historical records revealed his grandfather to have been infected; because of stigma, this was unknown to the patient. As Hansen's disease has an incubation period of years, isolated cases may still occur as a result of previous endemicity in Queensland.
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