India accounts for 60 percent of world’s leprosy cases

Despite achieving elimination of leprosy as a public health problem ten years ago (a prevalence of < 1 case per 10 000 population), India still reports the highest number of leprosy cases on the globe by a long shot. In 2015, there was more than 210,000 new leprosy cases reported worldwide and India accounted for some 60 ["]