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Turns out more than 71 million people like lepers on crack.

"We know that lepers, pregnant women and the insane were prohibited, while piety was a must," said Robb.

“It’s not safe. Especially with all these strangers in town. They’d send me to the leper hospital in Louisiana. Nobody ever comes back from that place.”

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

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