Leprosy. “The Punishment of God”?

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.