#hansensdisease — Public Fediverse posts

‘When people are diagnosed with leprosy in India today, they are usually treated at a government hospital and sent home to go on with their lives. But in decades past, victims were banished to colonies. Tens of thousands of former patients, their children and grandchildren — most of whom never had leprosy — still live there. They face continued poverty and inadequate services but either don't want to leave or have nowhere else to go.’ #Leprosy #hansensdisease

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/g-s1-108321/leprosy-india-colony

‘When people are diagnosed with leprosy in India today, they are usually treated at a government hospital and sent home to go on with their lives. But in decades past, victims were banished to colonies. Tens of thousands of former patients, their children and grandchildren — most of whom never had leprosy — still live there. They face continued poverty and inadequate services but either don't want to leave or have nowhere else to go.’ #Leprosy #hansensdisease

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/g-s1-108321/leprosy-india-colony

‘When people are diagnosed with leprosy in India today, they are usually treated at a government hospital and sent home to go on with their lives. But in decades past, victims were banished to colonies. Tens of thousands of former patients, their children and grandchildren — most of whom never had leprosy — still live there. They face continued poverty and inadequate services but either don't want to leave or have nowhere else to go.’ #Leprosy #hansensdisease

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/g-s1-108321/leprosy-india-colony

‘When people are diagnosed with leprosy in India today, they are usually treated at a government hospital and sent home to go on with their lives. But in decades past, victims were banished to colonies. Tens of thousands of former patients, their children and grandchildren — most of whom never had leprosy — still live there. They face continued poverty and inadequate services but either don't want to leave or have nowhere else to go.’ #Leprosy #hansensdisease

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/g-s1-108321/leprosy-india-colony

‘When people are diagnosed with leprosy in India today, they are usually treated at a government hospital and sent home to go on with their lives. But in decades past, victims were banished to colonies. Tens of thousands of former patients, their children and grandchildren — most of whom never had leprosy — still live there. They face continued poverty and inadequate services but either don't want to leave or have nowhere else to go.’ #Leprosy #hansensdisease

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/g-s1-108321/leprosy-india-colony

Ancient DNA reveals rare leprosy strain in the Americas thousands of years before European contact

In a discovery that overturns old suppositions about the origin of leprosy, researchers have recovered two extremely well-preserved genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis—a rare and severe form of bacteria that causes Hansen’s disease—from 4,000-year-old Chilean human skeletons...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/rare-leprosy-strain-in-the-americas/

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Leprosy existed in the Americas long before European contact, new study reveals

For centuries, it was the conventional narrative that leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, was introduced into the Americas by European colonists or enslaved Africans. But a groundbreaking new study published in Science is now overturning that assumption...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/leprosy-existed-in-the-americas-before-european-contact/

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A blog post on a must-watch short documentary from 1962.

Documenting Lepers' Lives: The House Is Black (1962)

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

#leprosy #music #blog #AmWriting #AcademicChatter #documentary #film #PandemicMusic #HansensDisease