[Andyman]

. . . highly contagious disease of leprosy. . .

Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) is one of the LEAST communicable bacteriological diseases known to science. In fact, during the nearly 100-year history of the Marine Corps Hospital at Carville, Louisiana, there were just two SUSPECTED cases (none confirmed) of staff getting the disease from patients.

[WhiskeyX]

Yes, but they didn’t believe that when they exiled these patients to this remote locale.

[Mears]

“Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) is one of the LEAST communicable bacteriological diseases known to science. In fact, during the nearly 100-year history of the Marine Corps Hospital at Carville, Louisiana, there were just two SUSPECTED cases (none confirmed) of staff getting the disease from patients.”

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Apparently none of the nun caregivers on Molokai caught the disease.

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