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M Leprae In The 1870's
In the 1870’s, when there was no prior cure or treatment for the disease, the state of Hawaii sentenced any one with leprosy to a portion of the island Molokai called Kalaupapa. At one point in history there were over 8,000 people in the camp of Kalaupapa. There was a man named father Damien who decided he would go over and help the people of this island to help out the people of the leper colony build houses and start a community. He later contracted leprosy and died on the island. There are only 16 leper patients remaining on the island currently.
In the UK island of Brownsea, the red squirrels have been able to contract a 700-year-old form of M. leprae. Scientist believe that the strain of Middle Age M. leprae came from a dead body of a
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