| 1 | Major diseases, like syphilis, gonorrhoea, leprosy, and tuberculosis, lost much of their sting. | |
| 2 | This discovery has led some to compare leprosy to other infectious diseases that leaped from animals to humans. | |
| 3 | Most countries in this region eliminated leprosy as a public health problem nearly 7 years ago. | |
| 4 | Tellurium oxides were used as antimicrobial agents against diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis before the development of antibiotics. | |
| 5 | Truman says there was no leprosy in the New World until European settlers arrived. |