Anonymous ID: f3df50 June 28, 2018, 6:53 a.m. No.1938993   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Even though theyโ€™ve been free to leave for half a century, the remaining residents prefer life in seclusion from the rest of the world.

 

Leprosy is now known as Hansenโ€™s disease, and though it is now easily treated there is still no vaccine. The disease is still widely misunderstood and its victims stigmatized.

 

"One of the worst things about having had this disease is that even after you're cured, society will not let you heal because of 'L' word," a patient named Makia Malo told the Associated Press in 2003. "People don't know how hurtful and wrong that term is."

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hawaii-still-has-a-leprosy-colony-with-six-patients