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This is Hawaii’s Former Leprosy Colony, Where 8,000+ Patients Were Isolated Behind the World’s Tallest Sea Cliffs
Kalaupapa Peninsula sits on Molokai’s northern coast, cut off from the world by towering sea cliffs and rough waters. From ...
A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit
Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a ...
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Medicine: Survival of a Dark Age
The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive ...
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At this national park in Hawaiʻi, a natural paradise and a medical purgatory
On the north side of Molokaʻi — the least-visited Hawaiian Island — a piece of land called the Kalaupapa Peninsula juts out from the rest of the island. Lay eyes on it for the first time, and ...