EVALUATION OF CONTACT SURVEILLANCE OF HANSENIASIS PATIENTS IN MUNICIPALITIES OF THE STATE OF PARÁ
Leprosy, Epidemiology and Contact Surveillance.
Leprosy or Hansen's Disease (MH) was discovered in 1874 by the Norwegian physician and botanist Gerhard Amauer Hansen. Currently, it is known that it is an infectious disease, chronic evolution, compulsory notification, curable and mandatory investigation throughout the national territory, manifested mainly by skin lesions with decreased thermal sensitivity, painful and tactile caused by the bacillus. resistant, acid-resistant intracellular alcohol called Mycobacterium leprae.