'Spreading faster than ever': Bangladesh's tea pickers have world's highest rate of leprosy
by Thaslima Begum in Sylhet and Kaamil Ahmed

The Guardian    Translate This Article
7 April 2023

On 7 April 2023 The Guardian reported: Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease. According to the Leprosy Mission, the vast tea plantations of Sylhet in the north-east of the country, which employ about 600,000 workers -- mostly women from minority groups -- have the highest rate of leprosy in the world. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern health systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

...Leprosy is one of the world's most neglected diseases. It is spread by moisture droplets passed through the air. Tea pickers, who usually live in crowded conditions in basic corrugated-iron homes on the plantations, and lack decent food, sanitation, and health facilities, are particularly vulnerable to infection.

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