Leprosy

**Leprosy**, dem sanso know am as **Hansen's disease** (**HD**), be a long-term infection by de bacteria *Mycobacterium leprae* anaa *Mycobacterium lepromatosis*. Infection fi lead to damage of de nerves, respiratory tract, skin, den eyes. Dis nerve damage fi result insyd a lack of ability to feel pain, wich fi lead to de loss of parts of a person ein extremities from repeated injuries anaa infection thru unnoticed wounds. An infected person sanso fi experience muscle weakness den poor eyesight. Leprosy symptoms fi begin within one year, buh for sam people symptoms fi take 20 years anaa more make e occur.

## Notable cases

* Josephine Cafrine of Seychelles (1877–1907) na she get leprosy from age 12 wey na she keep a journal wey document ein struggles den suffering. Na she publish as an autobiography insyd 1923.
* Saint Damien De Veuster (1840–1889), a Catholic priest wey komot Belgium, contract leprosy wey he minister to lepers.
* Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1161–1185), Catholic king of Latin Jerusalem, na he get leprosy.
*Ingeborg Grytten ( – after 1705), Norwegian writer.
*Josefina Guerrero (1917–1996), Filipino World War II spy.
* King Henry IV of England (r. 1399–1413) possibly get leprosy.
* Vietnamese poet Hàn Mặc Tử (1912–1940)
* Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1558 anaa 1565–1600), a Japanese *daimyō* (feudal lord).
* British writer Peter Greave (1910–1977).
* Popular Indian actress Dimple Kapadia (1957–present) na dem diagnose am plus leprosy a few months before de shoot of de 1973 musical romance film, Bobby (1973 film). Na she later recover completely wey na she go on go get a successful acting career.
## Insyd media

* August 1891 — de short story collection *Life's Handicap* by Rudyard Kipling get a story "The Mark of the Beast" insyd wich a traveller for horseback literally stumble into a leper colony insyd India.
* 1909 —  na Jack London publish "Koolau the Leper" insyd ein *Tales of Hawai'i* about Molokai den people consign to am circa 1893.
* 1959 — James Michener ein novel *Hawaii* dey dramatize Molokai ein leper settlement, wey dey include Father Damien.
* 1959 — *Ben-Hur* dey depict de title character ein mommie, Miriam, den younger sisto, Tirzah, na de Roman Empire imprison dem. Wen na dem free dem years later, dem get leprosy wey dem lef town for de Valley of de Lepers, rada dan make dem stay den reunite plus Ben-Hur. Dem lef de colony, den wen Jesus die for de cross top, na dem be cured miraculously.
* 1960 — English author Graham Greene ein novel *A Burnt-Out Case* be set insyd a leper colony insyd Belgian Congo. De story sanso be predominantly about a disillusioned architect wey dey work plus a doctor on devising new cures den amenities give mutilated victims of lepers; de title, too, dey refer to de condition of mutilation den disfigurement insyd de disease.
* 1962 —  na Forugh Farrokhzad make a 22-minute documentary about a leprosy colony insyd Iran dem title *The House Is Black*.
* 1977 —  De lead character insyd *The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant* by Stephen R. Donaldson dey suffer from leprosy. 
* 2006 —  *Moloka'i* be a novel by Alan Brennert about a leper colony insyd Hawaii.
* 2009 —  *Squint: My Journey with Leprosy* be a memoir by Jose P. Ramirez.
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