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QJM Advance Access published online on June 20, 2007
QJM, doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcm053
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Hansen's disease

John Launer

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Earlier this year, I visited the University of Bergen to give a lecture, and found that the department where I was speaking was in one of Bergen's former leprosy hospitals. Norway is now very wealthy, so it is a shock to discover that it was one of the poorest countries in Europe until well into the twentieth century, and leprosy was endemic there. Bergen still takes pride in G.H. Armauer Hansen (1841–1912), the local physician who first identified Mycobacterium leprae, and whose name became . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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