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Leprosy notifications to UK national surveillance: 2001 to 2025
From 2001 to 2025, 255 people were notified with leprosy in the UK.
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Between 2000 and 2025:
- 255 people were notified with leprosy in the UK, with 15 notifications in 2025 – all infections were acquired outside the UK
- no transmission of leprosy in the UK was detected for the period of this report
- 70% of people with leprosy diagnosed in the UK started multi-drug therapy (MDT)
- leprosy notifications in the UK are most commonly in males aged 15 to 65 years
- the most common World Health Organization (WHO) regions of acquisition for UK notifications are the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) followed by the Region of the Americas (AMR) and the African Region (AFR)