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World Leprosy Day started in 1954 and takes place on January 29th. It aims to raise awareness about the disease leprosy. In particular, it is an opportunity to inform people that leprosy is a curable disease and is not passed on by touching leprosy sufferers. For hundreds of years, people have wrongly thought they can catch leprosy through contact with those who have the disease. They are afraid of anyone with leprosy. Because of this, people with leprosy have been made to live outside of society in special colonies, often on remote islands. Other sufferers become outcasts in their communities. Leprosy affects millions of peoplearound the world today, often the poorest people in society. Having the disease means they cannot find work, which adds to their poverty.
世界防治麻風病日開始于1954年，并在每年的1月29日舉行。該節日的目的是提高人們對麻風病的認識。此外，該節日也是一個讓人們了解麻風病的機會，麻風病是可治之癥，觸摸麻風病病人是不會感染的。幾百年來，人們總是錯誤地認為人們可以通過與麻風病病人接觸而患病。他們害怕任何患有此病的人。出于這個原因，病人通常會居住在遠離社會的特殊地區，有時是遙遠的海島。其他病人被社會所遺棄。如今，麻風病影響了全球上百萬人，病人通常是社區中的貧困者。患有麻風病就意味著他們無法找到工作，這更加加深貧困。
Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s Disease, named after doctor G.H.A. Hansen, who discovered the disease. It is a bacteria that is carried in water vapor through the air. Most people are naturally immune to the disease but those in poorer countries can have weaker immune systems and so have little immunity. If it is not treated, it causes permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes. It can cause permanent disability and reduce life expectancy by 50 per cent. For centuries, people believed leprosy caused parts of thebody to fall off, but this is totally untrue. This is another part of the fiction and social stigma that surrounds the disease. Medicine can prevent the spread of the disease. More than 14 million people have been cured with a multi-drug therapy since the early 1980s.
麻風病也叫漢森氏病，他是以G.H.A.漢森醫生的名字命名的，是漢森發現了麻風病。這是一種攜帶在空氣水蒸氣中的細菌。絕大部分人天生對這種疾病有免疫功能，但是貧困國家中的人民免疫系統差，他們對這種病沒有免疫能力。如果治療不得當，它將對皮膚、神經、眼睛和四肢造成永久的傷害。它還能造成永久性癱瘓，減少50%的壽命。幾個世紀以來，人們相信部分身體器官將會衰退，但是這是完全不正確的。這是關于這一疾病的又一謊言。藥物可以避免疾病的傳播。在20世紀80年代早期，有超過1400萬人都接受了藥物治療。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
