Leprosy is still present in Malaysia, but it can be easily treated before it reaches the advanced stages with significant ...

Despite the ministry’s reassurances, hospital and parliamentary sources say that there have been efforts over the past two years to repurpose the colony, citing the declining leprosy infection ...

The bill provides for a Commissioner of Leprosy, who shall be a physician ... a square mile of the public domain is to be set aside for the colony of unfortunates. No lepers are to be admitted ...

Lepers were often forced to live in leper colonies and not allowed to come close to towns and villages. Jesus did not like that the law separated someone from society because they were ‘unclean’.

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It was originally founded as a leper colony in 1934 away from residential areas, but the city has expanded to surround it. - 'Stigma has diminished' - Perceptions of the disease are only slowly ...