A case of leprosy, also known as Hansen disease, has been recorded in Romania, the country’s health ministry reported.

Three other female patients, suspected of having the disease, are undergoing clinical and microbiological examinations.

All four had come from Asian countries and work as masseuses at a spa salon in Cluj-Napoca city.

Two of them, aged 21 and 25, who were the first to seek medical care at the city hospital, came from Indonesia.

The aforesaid spa salon is closed until the end of the epidemiological investigation. It has disinfected all the rooms it uses, and its staff was tested.

The last case of leprosy in Romania was diagnosed in 1981. The country has Europe’s last leprosarium, intended for housing people with leprosy, located in Tichilesti commune in Tulcea County. In 2018, it had 10 patients.