ANESVAD – Although leprosy is eliminated in Europe, in 2014 11 new cases in the State, one of them in Navarra were recorded, according to the Anesvad association, which encrypts a dozen patients in the annual incidence of a condition of the Sunday is celebrated the world Day. The organization, which said that 10 cases of 2014 corresponded to immigrants currently residing in the country, recalled in a statement that leprosy is a forgotten disease associated with poverty and inequality. Besides the case of Navarre, there were 4 in Catalonia, 2 in Madrid and Castilla y Leon and one in the Balearic and Canary Islands.www.anesvad.org

Anesvad Navarra recorded in 2014 a case of leprosy of the 11 state