How Leper Colonies Worked

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🗓️ 2 December 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, used to mean a one-way ticket to banishment. But once medicine trained its sights on wiping out what might be the most ancient disease to afflict humans, it has become treatable and even accepted.

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0:47.9	Unclean.
0:50.5	Unclean.
0:51.5	What is that from?
0:52.7	I think that's what people with leprosy were.
0:56.2	They had to say, they had to ring a bell and say unclean when they walked through town
1:01.2	so people would avoid them.
1:02.8	I knew about the bell.
1:04.0	I think they would have to say unclean.
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