00811nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001260003800042100001400080700001300094700001600107700001900123245004200142300001200184520043900196020001800635       2022                            d  bSpringer International Publishing1 aScholtz S1 aBecker M1 aMacMorris L1 aLangenbucher A00aLeprosy. “The Punishment of God”?  a185-1873 a<p>As old as humankind and long before the plague, AIDS or COVID, outbreaks of leprosy have affected, and panicked, people on every continent. The clapper in the hand of a leper was used to warn travellers of the oncoming presence of one afflicted with leprosy. Whether called “Hansen’s disease” or the “punishment of God,” leprosy was once one of the horrors of mankind and in some countries of the world it still is.</p>
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