Question

________is commemorated as Anti Leprosy day.
a. 24th March
b. 30th January
c. 1st December
d. 5th November

Answer 1

Leprosy or Hansen's disease is recorded as the oldest infectious disease, and it is a chronic disease mainly targeting the nervous system, especially nerves in the cooler parts of the body such as fingers, hands, legs, etc.

Complete answer:
- Anti leprosy day is celebrated internationally every year, in order to increase the awareness of the public regarding this disease.
- So the celebrated day is chosen as a tribute to the Mahatma Gandhi life, he is the person who showed a lot of compassion to the people who are affected by this chronic infectious disease.
- So every January 30th is celebrated as anti-leprosy day, as to commemorate the death day of Mahatma Gandhi.
- Particularly this day was chosen by French humanitarian Raoul Follereau.
- So every year there is a theme that is selected for that year regarding leprosy, and mainly to the concept is to eradicate the stigma and discrimination, so many people are discriminated because of leprosy, so those people have social stigma, and because of these half of the leprosy attacked people, face the depression and anxiety regarding this.
- So this day seeks to put the end to stigma and discrimination, and this antileprosy day also focus on target for zero cases.
- Where in 2005, India publicly announced that there is no more public threat regarding leprosy.
- But in the year 2017, the World health organization again announced that India has still 60% of new cases. And the children prone to leprosy disease are 8.7%.
- In the year 2018, Bihar state has high leprosy cases, and after that so many preventive programmes are conducted by the government to decrease the spread and to eradicate.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: Leprosy is not a hereditary disease, it do not transmitted from parents to children, it is mainly transmit by the mucosal secretions of the infected person and if the person is in contact with untreated infected individual for a longer time also spread the disease.