Assertion: leprosy | /r/HasProperty | widespread
Facets:
value: even then
type: TEMPORAL
value: for hundreds of years
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Other persons at higher risk include those who are in close and prolonged contact with leprosy victims, or who live in regions where leprosy is widespread.
text: People may be at risk for the disease if they live in a country where the disease is widespread (
text: Armadillos are native to South America; and leprosy, first brought to Brazil over 500 years ago by the European explorers and through the slave trade from West Africa, has been widespread there for hundreds of years.
text: The historical researches of Virchow concerning leper-houses (leprosoria) have established the fact that such institutions existed in France as early as the seventh century at Verdun, Metz, Maestricht, etc., and that leprosy must even then have been widespread.