Her mother suffered from leprosy and she passed away. She is 27 years old and since then she reminds here.
Her mother suffered from leprosy and she passed away. She is 27 years old and since then she reminds here because she has no family and she was born with “problems”, according to the nurses. She doesn’t communicate, but emits guttural sounds. Brazil is second, after India, for the total number of cases of leprosy in the world. In 2003, there were nearly 50,000 new cases of leprosy detected in the country. Several million Brazilians live in favelas today. The situation in the favelas, with people living in cramped quarters, are ideal for the transmission of the disease. "Leprosy? That comes from dogs, right?" ("Lepra? Vem do cachorro, né?")1 "Doesn't that cause your limbs to fall off (cair em pedaços)?" One of the first things I learned as I conducted anthropological research on cultural aspects of leprosy in Rio de Janeiro is that few people in the general public in Brazil knew much about this disease or how it is transmitted.
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