01108nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260001700042653003100059653001100090653001100101653001200112653001400124653002300138653002100161100001300182700001200195700001400207245013300221300001100354490000700365520050600372       1976                            d  c1976 Sep-Oct10aEmigration and Immigration10aHumans10aIncome10aleprosy10aPolynesia10aPopulation Density10aUrban Population1 aMerlin M1 aCarme B1 aLaigret J00a[Impact of a profound change in the structure of a society on the evolution of an endemic disease: leprosy in French Polynesia].  a422-330 v693 a<p>In French Polynesia the cases of leprosy are individually severe but the endemy itself always stood in low limits. The intensive use of modern treatments since 1950 have been making the eredication reasonably possible in the future. However the brutal demographic increase, the deep upsetting of the society and the important migrations made propitious conditions in the urbanized area for the advent of a new centre of infection. The result seems to be an increase of leprosy in the territory.</p>