Assertion: leprosy | /r/HasProperty | contagious
Facets:
value: highly
type: DEGREE
value: mildly
type: DEGREE
value: at that time
type: TEMPORAL
value: until the 20th century
type: TEMPORAL
value: in disfigurement
type: OTHER
value: in severe cases
type: TEMPORAL
value: in deformities
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Leprosy is contagious but is considered to be only mildly contagious.
text: It is a contagious disease that affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves, causing discoloration and lumps on the skin and, in severe cases, disfigurement and deformities. .
text: Leprosy was considered incurable and highly contagious.
text: Leprosy is contagious but is considered to be only mildly contagious.
text: Until the 20th century, leprosy was thought to be highly contagious and generally incurable.
text: Is leprosy contagious?
text: Leprosy is the disease that is said to be mildly contagious as it is not an airborne disease but is communicable through sexual activities .
text: Leprosy is contagious but does not spread easily.
text: Because leprosy was thought to be highly contagious, the word leper also came to be used more generally to mean "an outcast" or "a person to be avoided.
text: Leprosy is mildly contagious.
text: I have noticed multiple incidences on this page where editors seem to have gone out of their way to reinforce the apparently unsubstantiated idea that Leprosy is non-contagious.
text: While all peoples of antiquity, from earliest times up to some centuries after the Talmudic period, held (as at the present day; Katzenelenson, in "Ha-Yeḳeb," p. 75, St. Petersburg, 1894) that leprosy was contagious, the Talmudic writers treated it as not contagious.
text: Leprosy is contagious, but is not easily transmitted.
text: At that time, leprosy was thought to be highly contagious and incurable.
text: Russian pathologist Gregory Minh discovered that leprosy is contagious; assuming that Biblical tzaraat is non-contagious, he therefore concluded that tzaraath is in fact vitiligo.
text: The idea of sinfulness, and the misconception that leprosy was highly contagious, was largely influenced by Victorian medical historians with a segregationist agenda when regarding other colonies, Roffey said.
text: The disease can be contagious, but is not highly contagious, and 95 percent of the global population is naturally immune to the causal bacterium, Mycobaterium leprae.
text: Is leprosy contagious?
text: Leprosy is very contagious.
text: Because leprosy was so contagious, people long ago would shout “UNCLEAN!
text: Leprosy was a highly contagious disease, spread by both direct contact with the afflicted person and indirect contact through items touched by the leper, such as clothes and bedding.
text: Leprosy is an Contagious disease.
text: The oldest civilizations of China, Egypt, and India feared leprosy was an incurable, mutilating, and contagious disease.