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@Maven0666

2 ай бұрын

We have armadillo infestations here in Central to Northern Florida. They carry leprosy/Hansens disease. There is an outbreak of it in Gainesville. Rabies is bad here too and fungus.

@mikedergz6163

2 ай бұрын

This guy sucks I'm a leopard an I got nothing

Diabetes basically causes the loss of extremities the same way leprosy does-- by numbing the victim to injuries that subsequently lead to infections. So be thankful whenever you feel pain-- it's your body trying to save you from having to have fingers or toes amputated.

@shawnnewell4541

2 ай бұрын

That was my first thought as a diabetic.

@elizabethclaiborne6461

2 ай бұрын

No, it doesn’t. Lepers don’t get amputation, the body reabsorbs the injured tissues.

@ydid687

2 ай бұрын

Yeah people with chronic pain are just ungrateful, their bodies care about them too much

@katarinatibai8396

2 ай бұрын

​@ydid687 💯💯💯😂😂😂💀💀☠️ You are right 🏆 I wish my body would care less than I would be more thankful 😅👍

@dollinterrupted

2 ай бұрын

I saw a show about kids who didn’t have pain receptors and they had horrible lives. One of them had to have her tongue removed because she kept chewing on it without realizing. So sad.

I am not a pilgrim or traveller, but will watch regardless

@lame-related

2 ай бұрын

🦃 🏃 😆😄😆

@mattiemathis9549

2 ай бұрын

The video I never knew I needed, but yes. I need it now.😂😂

@Dankpuffin

2 ай бұрын

We are all travelers of space and time. All of us!

@jscotthatcher380

2 ай бұрын

i use to be a traveller but i took an arrow in the knee.

@zechariahzen.6364

2 ай бұрын

No. Leave. Right now.

So, my dad was a Marine Corps pilot in the South Pacific during WWII. He would live in tents or Quonset huts on these tropical islands. His flight surgeon was a bit of a lush, but he greeted all the pilots returning from missions with a shot of booze. After a few weeks in the South Pacific, dad noticed his fingernails and toenails had stopped growing. Concerned, he went to the flight surgeon, who said, "Oh, yeah, that would be the rats." He explained that the rats would creep into dwellings and gnaw on people's fingernails and toenails very discreetly. They would only stop gnawing when they had nibbled too much, and the sleeping person would fling away the rat, all without waking up. The surgeon then added, "Doctors think that's how lepers lose their fingers and toes. Rats gnaw them off, and because the disease destroys the nerve endings, the poor buggers can't feel it. Here, son, you look a little green. Have a shot.". He then rummaged in his desk for some whiskey

@Mattteus

2 ай бұрын

That is one hell of a story

@clairenollet2389

2 ай бұрын

@@Mattteus Dad had some pretty amazing stories, and he was a natural born storyteller. He could hold any room spellbound. I miss him.

@FirstNameLastName-ti4nc

2 ай бұрын

@@clairenollet2389he sounded like a great man

@clairenollet2389

2 ай бұрын

@@FirstNameLastName-ti4nc The greatest man I ever knew.

@sameshitdifferentsmell1305

2 ай бұрын

That’s awesome, you sound very proud of him as you should!

In a leper colony in India they discovered that while the lepers slept, rodents would chew at their extremities. Naturally a person would move upon feeling such things, however due to loss of feeling in their extremities the lepers never moved and thus woke to missing pieces. Once they figured this out they assigned cats to each of the lepers stopping this.

@marcbeebee6969

2 ай бұрын

😮 thanks, why would i sleep.... this week

@Intifada1981

2 ай бұрын

I knew there was a good reason for letting my cats sleep in our bed somewhere 😅 I'll be using it from now on

@duanesamuelson2256

2 ай бұрын

Cats don't typically go after rats..thats why terriers (like rat) were used for rodent control. I've seen feral cats walk by rats scrounging in the city (DC) and detour to stay out of their (the rats) personal space.

@sagefi1

28 күн бұрын

Wow

One major correction to this dissertation. Medieval society was actually quite tolerant of people with diseases like leprosy, they were not ostracized as mentioned initially here. It was later, in the 1800’s where mass transportation was a major practice that people with diseases like this were ostracized and isolated. The church in medieval times promoted a fatalistic but actually quite positive attitude towards diseases like leprosy, feeling that the people were suffering here on earth and therefore would have a more direct path to heaven. You also don’t die directly from leprosy, but from conditions that can come about as a result of the immune system being compromised- issues like kidney disease, heart disease, etc being the actual cause of death. A great video all in all.

@magiv4205

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for mentioning this! There are so many stereotypes around the middle ages that actually originated in the 1800s. It's a goddamn epidemic of misinformation that is completely normalized, and it hurts my heart as a history lover.

@pioneercynthia1

2 ай бұрын

Saint Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) was renowned for hugging and kissing a man with leprosy, *because everyone else reviled him* so I'm not sure about that tolerance bit.

@saragrant9749

2 ай бұрын

@@pioneercynthia1 in Medieval Europe they have found ample evidence that lepers were treated with no ill will and were an accepted part of the community. Remember, the “story” you’re referring to has never been corroborated by any actual archaeological evidence, and is just that- a STORY. Archaeologists have discovered many medieval graveyards- inside the remains of old church parishes- that included skeletons with the hallmarks of leprosy, and they are right in amongst the rest of those buried in the churchyard. It wasn’t until much later that lepers started to be ostracized- around the same time mass transportation of criminals and “undesirables.” This information actually comes from scientists and archaeologists- people with extensive knowledge of medieval history instead of unproven legends.

@rachelmoney4730

2 ай бұрын

He made that clear in the video. Though that’s not tolerant. They were still ostracized. And not allowed to live normally.

@philhawley1219

2 ай бұрын

I'm sure I've got that too. Can anyone lend me a bell?

Molokai still has residents from the former colony whose care is overseen by the Dept of Health. If you want to bring children while visiting them, you need special permission, not for disease reasons, but due to the trauma of having their children taken away from them at birth.

@margodphd

2 ай бұрын

That's... that's one of the saddest things I've read for weeks. If I recall well, Ask a Mortician done a wonderful video on "leper colonies" around Hawai'i that was well worth watching.

@SoundShinobiYuki

2 ай бұрын

@@margodphdYep, Molokai was the one she went to.

I suffer from a severe case of erythodermic psoriasis that covers my entire body and even affects nails, hair, teeth, and internal organs (not properly treated it can lead to death from heart or other organ failure, and trying to get mine treated has been an annoying af journey as a smalltown Canadian); I'm certain I would've been seen as a leper

@maryperrot1209

2 ай бұрын

I wondered about psoriasis as well. Think you are so ,unfortunately correct

@jellyfishattack

2 ай бұрын

I live in rural Canada. I understand how difficult it can be. I wish you do feel better soon.

@_catboy_

2 ай бұрын

i wish you the best, i hope you find the best treatment and live as comfortably as possible

@bellasprink2893

2 ай бұрын

I have discoid lupus which covered my body with sores and plaques. My hair fell out etc… I was in Dapsone for years. I think I would have be considered a leper.

I can see how this could be the origin of Zombie folklore. They're legally dead, yet still alive. Parts of their body are missing, they probably shamble about rather than having a normal gate. They really would be Zombies

@ashkebora7262

Ай бұрын

There are a few worse diseases that make for "zombies". Rabies being a violent example where they'll lose their mind. There are a few other diseases that slowly destroy someones' mind and could easily leave them shambling to an early grave while appearing not unlike a zombie. Especially in medieval times where medical care of _any_ sort wasn't likely to leave you with just a clean scar...

Its been mostly closed since Covid due to remaining survivors still living there eith compromised immune systems, but St. Damien's church on Molokai is an amazing visit.

My assumption is that in the middle ages (and earlier) it wasn't actually leprosy in most cases, but was instead any number of more common things that were also less deadly but possibly more transmissible. Various skin diseases could easily fit early signs and be quarantined as a way of trying to block the spread of a "sudden" deadly disease.

@saragrant9749

2 ай бұрын

You are correct. Archaeologists have discovered that many medieval people died not from leprosy but quite often from syphilis. Leprosy was of course around too, but syphilis and tuberculosis also affected the bones and skin of people.

@violet7773

2 ай бұрын

Though if people with other disorders or diseases were quarantined with people who had leprosy, it's possible that they would also contract leprosy themselves.

@westzed23

2 ай бұрын

And as Simon stated, that during the early centuries of leprosy it did spread quicker than it does now.

I have eczema. It didn't show up till my mid 20s. It is annoying, very itchy until you get it under control. Then it pops up every seasonal change. I'll take that any day over leprosy. Thanks for the video

@lewiitoons4227

2 ай бұрын

Literally the exact same nd sometimes makes me a lil self conscious especially when it comes out of nowhere at the start of summer just when ye wear less clothes but then I saw this video and suddenly I don’t really care hahaha that shits terrifying

I called my outside cat Max in for dinner one time and he made his way to the door with a friend. An armadillo. It was like he was asking if his friend could come in for dinner. 😂 I politely told him his friend had to go home.

@kendra_t

2 ай бұрын

I once watched my barn cat eating from the same bowl as the possum that lived under the porch.

@wolfrickthedesigner4748

2 ай бұрын

You can only catch leprosy from an armadillo when cooking and eating the liver 👍 You could have had a house guest 😂

@SleepyLeeeee

2 ай бұрын

@@kendra_t Possum scare me lol. If they get angry, they have this scary hiss and their faces scrunch up *shudder*

@jamesreynolds1275

2 ай бұрын

Possums don’t carry any diseases. They make great pets.

@SleepyLeeeee

2 ай бұрын

I've known a few people to have them as pets who say the same thing. I just can't get past how angry they get ...and they do have some super sharp teeth and nails​@@jamesreynolds1275

10:25. Father Damien was "beautified" - LOL

@subplantant

2 ай бұрын

I just heard that - ouch

@philhawley1219

2 ай бұрын

@@subplantant I often notice mispronunciation with this narrator. If he didn't gabble like a cocaine user we may learn a little more.

@subplantant

2 ай бұрын

@@philhawley1219 I can't categorize this as "mispronunciation". He just doesn't know what the word is.

@PurpleAmharicCoffee

10 күн бұрын

Yep, beatified. Perhaps the writer isn’t as knowledgeable about the Catholic church, made a typo, or Simon misread it. Considering how many channels he narrates for, these slip-ups easily happen.

The rapid spread in the Middle Ages is easily explained in a world where now 95% are immune or near immune… the ones who weren’t immune died w/o passing on their genes in the Middle Ages leaving a more naturally immune population behind to continue on to us today. As you mentioned their weakened immune system lead to them dying off in the Black Death. Further generally poorer sanitation standards of the Middle Ages and the increased close quarters contact they regularly faced explain a lot of disease transmission. Especially when you can be outwardly asymptomatic for an extended period moving thru the community spreading the disease long before you’re noticed for your skin lesions.

Just a quick note: beatified is not pronounced beautified {bu te fide}, but rather as "be atuh fide".

@johannahoneyman697

2 ай бұрын

I was just coming here to say the same thing. The pope ‘beautifying’ someone gave me a good laugh 😂

@Intifada1981

2 ай бұрын

I thought it was beet-eh-fyed like the church was beating them up or something 😮

@weebunny

2 ай бұрын

​@johannahoneyman697 oh, I just had a good laugh imagining the Pope working as a hairdresser in a beauty salon! It would definitely cut down on the gossip in the beauty shop if your stylist had a sacred duty never to reveal whatever sins you had confessed to him 😁

@thebobbalo1

2 ай бұрын

​@@Intifada1981 No one expects the Spanish Inquistion!!

@carryoncarrion4525

2 ай бұрын

Explain what it actually means or???? Go away? Some people read these responses looking for clarification not people patting themselves on the back hard enough to break their arms.

Thank you for this. My maternal grandfather was a physician, and moved his family to Carville in the 1950-60's(?) to study leprosy. I didn't know enough to ask more about it until it was too late. Did find out that he wrote a chapter for the Merrik manual on leprosy (it has been since updated by someone else-but that is the way medicin is - always learning)

I actually learned a bit about leprosy from a fantasy book series, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. The author, Stephen R Donaldson, grew up with a father who was a doctor for a leper colony. The main character has leprosy and lost half of his hand because of it. The character continually checks his hands and feet for injuries and infections because of loss of sensation. It's a really good series, with the first installment named best science fiction novel of the year in 1977, if I remember correctly. It may have been best series at a later date.

@richardaubrecht2822

2 ай бұрын

I've heard that name before somewhere... I should find it, thanks for suggestion.

@evanhermiston7588

2 ай бұрын

fantastic books. the white gold wielder.

@midnite_rambler

2 ай бұрын

Loved that series. Very under-rated.

@billmullins6833

2 ай бұрын

I have the 6 books of the first 2 chronicles. Loved them.

@LaurieAnnCurry

2 ай бұрын

Love the white gold wielder

Sometime around mid 1984 a place called (I think) Diego Suarez , on the Northern tip of Madagascar was struck by a hurricane . The USS Hector (AR 7) ported for relief operations . I was one of several volunteers to work in the leper colony . No one spoke the local language . The most severely affected were kept in what little shelter they had . There were apparently uninfected children there . Anyhow spent two days working there . Thank you for the video !

@allrounder7003

2 ай бұрын

I suppose you spoke to them on French then.

@dankauffman8568

2 ай бұрын

@@allrounder7003 Now that you mentioned it , I think the local language was French . There were three missionaries that seemed to be in charge . One Priest and two Nuns . They only spoke Italian . Thank you .

@allrounder7003

2 ай бұрын

@@dankauffman8568 The local lingo is Malagasy a weird Austronesian language with even weirder spellings. The nearest language to it is spoken in Borneo. Most Malagasy can speak French to some degree though. The closet you might have had on a US ship would have been Hawaiian but even then I doubt if it would have been mutually intelligible.

Leprosy research has been hampered by a lack of non human research models. Apparently the only other animals to get it are Armadillos.

Their lives decay before their eyes / There is no hope of cure Among their own kind they live / A life that's so obscure First an arm and then a leg / Deterioration grows Rotting while they breathe / Death comes slow Leprosy by Death, admittedly not always factual accurate but still a killer track and album. For an analysis of the track I dug a bit into the disease itself, that's when I first read about Father Damien, truly a saint.

Why did the leper fail his driving test? He left his foot on the clutch.

@Cartman8402

2 ай бұрын

Badam Tsss 😂

@targard.quantumfrack6854

2 ай бұрын

We have a similar one in france: Who invented Hachis-Parmentier (essentially ground beef and mashed potatoes)? A leper playing guitar.

Thank you Simon for bringing more about this illness to light. Your videos on all your channels are always very respectfully done, well researched, and interesting to watch. 😊

I just read The Covenant of Water, this video should be required viewing after finishing it. It really puts everything in context for that book!

Great video about a terrible condition. thank god there were angels who risked their lives to help the inflicted.

Thank you for posting! My shift is less boring now.

@olwynskye417

2 ай бұрын

And my 💩... Really shouldn't be using phone on the throne.

@Nefville

2 ай бұрын

Get to work!

@wulfrir8607

2 ай бұрын

@@Nefville I'll be there again tomorrow 😪

Beatification is pronounced Be at if ication, and is the first step on the way to sainthood in the Catholic church. Leprosy can be treated with antibiotics and as Fact Boi points out is one of the least transmissible of human diseases, so the continued ostracisation of lepers is tragic.

Was hoping you guys would mention Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, a pretty competent ruler and leper

i just keep getting videos recommended to me with the same dude and i'm not gonna stop clicking on them so idk why i'm even commenting but holy shit finding out he's on actually like 15 channels is nuts

The revelation at the end of a video about leprosy is a ray of sunshine.

I remember being at mass, when I was little, 1970's, and we had a missionary trying to raise funds for a colony somewhere in the world.

Excellent video! Thankyou 🎉

Wow, that was incredibly interesting... 👍🏻 THANKS👍🏻

I think the whole canonization thing is weird, but, if anyone deserves to be a "saint", it's that guy. So....good!

Thanks for the information on this. My first encounter with leprosy in person was when I was 11-years-old in the 90s and the talk "...why your uncle doesn't have a nose." He was one of those people who was like "Nah, I don't need a doctor. It'll go away. I feel fine." (poverty wasn't a factor or doctor fears). He'd tell his story over and over like it was some weird flex while laughing like: "...turns out it was leprosy! Isn't that funny?!" Eventually I saw the more serious side of it in actual poverty which was a lot more emotionally devastating to experience. I got in trouble by my mom for giving money to someone with the disease.

I love you cover awesome topics I never ever thought about but are interesting ..surreal

Love your vids!

Please do a video on Vitiligo.

Thank you for making the distinction between tza'aras in the Bible and modern leprosy (Hansen's disease). As a spiritual affliction, it required a priest to identify it. Also, it was possible for a house or furnishings to acquire tza'aras. Definitely not microbe-borne.

Father Damian is still a revert figure in Belgium for his actions to this day.

My dad and step mam visited a former leper colony in one of the Greek islands (sorry can't remember which one). He sent me some photos of the place and I did a bit of reading on leprosy and the treatment of the people infected with it throughout history which I found interesting but also sad.

Carville, the former leper colony in Louisiana, had quite a community, according to the leftover residents I took care of in Baton Rouge. They spoke about it fondly. A few of them had published books about their experiences. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working there. Except for a couple of residents, they were all very upbeat and good natured. Despite their missing parts. ❤️

Author Stephen R Donaldson has written several novels with a protagonist, Thomas Covenant, who is a survivor of Hansen's. Good reads all.

@rogerspacebucks450

2 ай бұрын

Berek Halfhand!

My grandmother´s sister was an obstretician in Valore in India back inte the 1920´2-1960´s. Sh was also involved in the treatment och people who had lost the use of their hands because of leprosy. She used to be sent back to do fund raising in the stats, and would laugh about the church ladies who would loudly praise her for her work, but pull their skirts away from her for fear they would be contaminated from touching her.

Did anyone else get confused because the Scary Interesting music was playing in the background at the start? Had to double check what I was listening to!

@kendra_t

2 ай бұрын

Great channel

This will probably be included towards the end. Leprosy has recently been diagnosed in Florida USA.

@jacquelynkemp2743

2 ай бұрын

It's never really gone away, just like various plagues. I believe the only disease almost eradicated is smallpox.

@gingercat777

2 ай бұрын

Well that's no surprise

@karinrandall855

2 ай бұрын

As a native Floridian I don't doubt it.

@harryparsons2750

2 ай бұрын

There is a cure for it before you start the fear mongering up to Covid levels.

@mobiledaw1436

2 ай бұрын

@@karinrandall855 the bad news is the 1st infection was a landscape gardener in central Florida who hasn’t traveled outside his local community for years and it’s believed he contracted it from the soil. There has been over 200 infections from 2022/23. The good news is it’s treatable and it’s far less dangerous than Covid.

this video unlocked a forgotten memory from when i was 9 years old and visiting the leper colony in spinalonga, crete. haven't thought about it in 15 years at least

In college I volunteered twice a year in a US/Mexico border town called Agua Prieta. It’s just on the other side of the arizona border fence. I saw people with leprosy, their noses and fingers missing. Kids playing soccer with balls made of plastic bags and tape. Whole families living in one room dirt floor homes with no electricity or running water. This is just a couple miles from the us. I was blown away…

Great way to end my weekend!

6:25 leprosy and tuberculosis are both caused by a different species of mycobacterium. It's believed that the spread of TB, combined with the weakened immune system, led to fewer cases of leprosy. TB js a faster, more deadly, disease.

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

So in 2009 I went to a National Guard ran Boot Camp at Carville and they still had a few people with leprosy there

Father Damion-what a hero!

turning regular cells into stem cells seems like it has the potential for a lot of health benefits (for treatments and such)

Thank you for understanding that tzaros is not the same thing as leprosy! Kudos to your writers and researchers. Translating Hebrew to English is hard enough, and when you are talking about esoteric spiritual matters it gets even more confusing, and it's easy to get the translations wrong.

Ironic that something so bad may be the key to something so good.

It wouldn't be my fingers or toes I'd be worrying about dropping off.

Love your enunciations. Good English.

I actually worked in a leprosy home in Baton Rouge. The people that lived there were leftover from the Carville leper colony in Louisiana, which was closed many years ago. Oddly enough, only about 5% of the human population can actually get leprosy. And in the whole history of the Carville Leper colony, only one person who worked there ever contracted the disease, and he was an electrician that had no contact with the residents.

11:25 that is literally the WORST gift you can possibly give a person who has just gone blind….

Double As in Norwegian and other Scandinavian languages is commonly a substitution of the letter Å, a vowel pronounced like the O in English _horn._ This is pretty much universal where a name _begins_ with _Aa,_ although there is some minor variance otherwise.

Leprosy, I'm not half the man I used to be, Little bits keep falling off of me, Since I contracted leprosy

Simon how many channels do you have?! Each time I think I’ve finally followed them all I find more 😂

As a child we had something in Primary School's in Scotland (in the 1970') called SRA - its an initialism for something a can't recall. Anyway, the priest in the lepor colony was one of the stories in the SRA library. Strange how some 45 years later and this is the first time since then that I have heard the story again, or that I remember the story at all!

There is a park named after Alice Ball a few blocks south of me.

Can I just point out that it was his time at a leper colony during his motorcycle trip that gave Che Guevara the fire he had for socialism. He was the first one at the colony to touch the lepers and even danced with them. I know he's a divisive figure but what can't ever be in doubt was his passion to improve the lot of the poor.

@S85B50Engine

2 ай бұрын

He was also a raging homophobe and racist

@louistart1173

2 ай бұрын

Helping the poor through government murder👌

@ScotChef

2 ай бұрын

Yes he was poor then he gave himself money and power.

@allrounder7003

2 ай бұрын

@@louistart1173 Helping Mafia and CIA collaborators through government murder, more like.

@allrounder7003

2 ай бұрын

@@ScotChef He was actually from a wealthy family in Argentina and a qualified doctor but kept giving his money away. There's a scene in the film about his motorcycle trip when his companion was rather distraught at him giving away all their money to a migrating peasant family they met on the road.

I have scleroderma. My left leg, particularly, is discolored in large patches.

I live down the road from the old camp in louisiana the facility is being used for a national gyard ryn juivinle rehabilitation program. The area is also haunted, i stayed at the job Corp facility next door.

Medieval Europe didn’t have a caste system. It was feudalism.

I would love to see a biographics episode on Alice Ball!

Imagine leprosy first appearing in today's world. "You're telling me I have to follow all these rules, carry a bell, and avoid contact with other people?! Screw that! Muh Freedoms!!"

@MaaZeus

2 ай бұрын

While at the same time pumping his fist in the air, only to realise he no longer has a fist...

@Ozziecatsmom

2 ай бұрын

@@MaaZeusI really shouldn’t have laughed but I did!😂😂

you should do a vid on lyme disease

Leprosy in the tora/old testament refers to all skin deseases, to all pathological deviations from the normal conditions because "ritual purity" means exactly that - you are either _pure_ or _unpure,_ theres nothing in between, and if you have a skin condition you are the latter and therefore a leper. The rules are captivatingly clear at times in scripture - appearently there are some people for whom this is a positive.

I learned this years ago. To the tune of "Yesterday": Leprosy - all my parts are falling off of me I'm not half the man I used to be Since I contacted Leprosy!"

Hansons disease (Leprosy) is also carried by the 9 banded armadillo. Approximately 200 cases of leprosy are contracted annually in this manner in the US every year.

God bless Fr Damian. So many are quick to say bad things about priests, but 98 percent of priests are very good people, sacrificing themselves for the sake of others.

Yes it is still around armadillos sometimes carry it.

Ironic that leprosy is still stigmatized in India, when India was the only place with a natural treatment for it.

Thanks for bringing up Alice Ball!!!!

Didn’t they have antibiotics by the 1960s?!

Just a note: it's pronounced "bee-at-ified", not beautified. Easy slip; the words are very close, and one far more common than the other...soldier on!

I had heard of Alice Paul before as a woman's sufferagist when I took a women's history class, they never mentioned she had any black heritage.

Very interesting

Fascinating. A dread disease of the ancient world, leprosy is now discovered to have potential benefits for modern medicine. So, who will grab the patent rights to those benefits and be able to reap vast fortunes, and who will be the beneficiaries?

Dang the cooking history guy has come a long way 🎉

There is a bible phrase, "nor the leopard change his spots" that is quirky. The funny part is that "nor the Leper change his spots" works almost exactly the same, seeing as how both Leopards and Lepers have spots that neither can change.

Wasn't one of the Kings of Jerusalem a leper? The last one I believe.

I've heard of lepers referred to as lazar's I suspect maybe it's because of Lazarus being dead but then alive

My guess as to why leprocy spread so much more rapidly during the middle ages than it does today would be simple attrition. The percentage of susceptible individuals in the general population would likely have been much higher at that time. Those susceptible individuals could have been infected long before the strict quarantines were inacted. Most of them may have been young children when infected. By the time they reached maturity, their ability to procreate was probably restricted, if not eliminated. Therefore, those with natural immunity survived to pass on their genes, and those without it passed away without descendants.

Pretty harsh punishment for chickenpox.

@jacquelynkemp2743

2 ай бұрын

Hansen's Disease and.Chickenpox are very different diseases

When I was a child, I got psoriasis. I wore long sleeve shirts year round for many many years because other children and even adults can be so cruel. When a teacher first seen my psoriasis I was pulled from class and they made my mother take me to the hospital. My psoriasis was mild then and easy to hide but I have never forgotten how crazy things were that year. That was the 70s. Now, I understand why people freaked. Some people asked if I had leprosy. It made me a much more understanding person, though. I try to always be respectful of people and understanding.

@scruffy-thejanitor

2 ай бұрын

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That took an unexpected turn at the very last minute. Also, no mention of Baldwin IV or the Order of St. Lazarus?

"Leprosy..... I'm not half the man I used to be....."

Same with ergotism: the St. Anthony's fire constricts blood vessels, and the extremities starve, blacken and fall off.

You just made D and D night better.

The australian black snake family can and do bite and hold on, specifically the king brown or mulga.

That we can use some of the traits of leprosy as a medication is similar to Botox... Botox is the toxin produced by botulism bacteria which can kill very painfully if not treated. But the toxin has found many places in medical application. Hundreds of thousands children can walk today because of Botox injections for club for. It gives relief to some migration suffers and so much more. sufferers,

Ok, i never saw the end twist coming.

Oh god poor people :( this is a horrible way to die!

3:19 - 3:55. : I remember when smoking cigarettes became the subject of these very words...