Buenos Aires is the capital city of Argentina. It has a population of 13,076,300, and is located on a latitue of -34.61 and longitude of -58.38.
The Tree Man condition is so rare that Ion Toater from Romania was the second person discovered with the disease, and that was in 2007. Most recently, in 2016, a Bangladeshi named Abul Bajandar was being operated on to cure his condition.
Globally in 2012, the number of chronic cases of leprosy was 189,000, down from some 5.2 million in the 1980s. The number of new cases was 230,000. Most new cases occur in 16 countries, with India accounting for more than half. In the past 20 years, 16 million people worldwide have been cured of leprosy. About 200 cases are reported per year in the United States. Leprosy has affected humanity for thousands of years. The disease takes its name from the Latin word lepra, while the term Hansen's disease is named after the physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen.