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The current global picture of the control of leprosy is mixed. The disease has been eliminated at the national level in 113 of the 122 countries in which it was a public-health problem in 1985. It is still encountered in India, Brazil, Myanmar, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal and Tanzania where the prevalence rates still exceeded 1 per 10 000 at the beginning of 2004. In India, the prevalence rate in March 2005 was 1.34 per 10 000, with a new case detection rate (NCDR) of 2.2 per 10 000.
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