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The People Battling Militants, COVID, and Leprosy
Thousands of people a year are diagnosed with leprosy in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, as villages recover from horrific militant attacks.
In Photos: Inside One of the World’s Loneliest Hospitals
There are only two patients in the leprosy hospital on an island in Sri Lanka's remote eastern province.
‘Island of Death’: BC’s Forgotten Racist Leper Colony
“It's almost like a person's worst nightmare really—just to be left to die.”
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I Was Diagnosed With Leprosy and Removed from Society
Rita de Cássia has lived in a hospital ward for 43 years. This is her story.
Medieval Leprosy Is Spreading Among UK Red Squirrels
Leprosy has been gone from the UK for decades, but it may have been just in hiding.
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I Asked an Expert Which Gross Diseases I Should Panic About
"One of the scariest threats to me is pandemic flu."
Lepers, Messiahs*
When I arrived in Nepal, my ultimate destination was the Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital in the southeastern Terai Plain.
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