Doug Hendrie

Doug Hendrie is the Associate Editor of newsGP.

X-ray of a case of leprosy (National Museum of Health and Medicine/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

7 December 2018

Leprosy was thought to be eliminated in Papua New Guinea – but it’s back

by Doug Hendrie

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