leper

"If you had enough money and could buy your way into a leper hospital, it's a bit like getting a place in a private care home or something like that."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

We learn that in Romania, for example, the leper colony of Tichilești was one of the only places in the country to lack state informants under the totalitarian Ceaușescu dictatorship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Modified chaulmoogra oil, based on the Ball Method, was distributed worldwide and helped free countless people from isolated leper colonies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

“That book in the library. By Dr. Eastman. He wrote it in Louisiana. Carville, Louisiana. How many leper colonies can there be in just one town?” she said.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

She also employs and supports a community of lepers and former sex workers who society would have otherwise cast aside.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

“People with AIDs were considered to be the lepers of the time,” Pieters said in a recent interview at his Silver Lake home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

"I simply hope that people who, in my opinion, have been treated rather like lepers, are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition."

From BBC ● May 16, 2022

We’re dodging each other like lepers on a sunny spring day, prospecting for toilet paper in the grocery aisles, washing our hands until they become wounds unto themselves.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020

For this reason, the treatment of lepers has historically been brutal in many parts of the world.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly