Post from Mary Ann Bernal - YouTube The Plight of the Lepers — Hope and Healing Post 5 of 5 Leprosy is curable today, yet India, Brazil, and Indonesia still report high infection rates. Survivo...

The Plight of the Lepers: Hope and Healing — Curable today, yet stigma lingers. Survivors remind us that words wound deeper than disease.
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Post from Mary Ann Bernal - YouTube The Plight of the Lepers — Fear Across Centuries Post 4 of 5 From Biblical times to the AIDS crisis, fear and ignorance shaped how the sick were treated. Eve...

The Plight of the Lepers: Fear Across Centuries — From scripture to modern pandemics, stigma outlasts disease. Prejudice proves stubborn across time.
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Post from Mary Ann Bernal - YouTube The Plight of the Lepers — The Living Dead Post 3 of 5 Declared “unclean,” lepers were legally dead. Their property seized, they were forced into colonies or...

The Plight of the Lepers: The Living Dead — Declared “unclean,” stripped of identity, and forced to beg for survival.
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Post from Mary Ann Bernal - YouTube The Plight of the Lepers — Desperate “Cures” Post 2 of 5 From bird blood in Leviticus to snake venom, frog poison, bee stings, and even arsenic, history is f...

The Plight of the Lepers: Desperate “Cures” — Snake venom, frog poison, even castration. History’s remedies reveal fear more than healing.
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Post from Mary Ann Bernal - YouTube The Plight of the Lepers — Ancient Origins Post 1 of 5 Leprosy, now called Hansen’s Disease, was documented as early as 1550 B.C. in Egypt. Caused by Mycobac...

The Plight of the Lepers: Ancient Origins — From Egypt’s records to centuries of fear, leprosy shaped history through stigma more than science.
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Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the disease was present in Argentina and Canada much earlier

Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans #Science #Biology #Microbiology #LeprosyHistory #Americas