"Culion is a lost island paradise," says museum director John Lisboa in the island's main town. Here, there are blue bays and waterfalls, fishing villages and nearly deserted beaches. There are no ...

In 2020, the last leper living in the Saint Charalambos colony in Larnaca died. She was 85 and had been there since the age of 14. Abandoned and neglected, the site fell into decay. Perhaps it was a ...

About 8,000 people have been exiled to the colony since 1865 when King Kamehameha V instituted an "Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy" that forced people with leprosy or anyone suspected of having ...

When the leper colony closed in the late 13th Century, the fair was handed over to the town, and by 1589, it had grown to become a five-week event [Cambridge Past, Present & Future] A re-enactment a ...

The discussion gets sticky with concerns over how to respect the largely Native Hawaiian residents past and present Maris Fessenden Former correspondent Leprosy may seem like an ancient illness, but ...

SOROK ISLAND, South Korea -- Kang Sun Bong once considered this tiny island a "hell on earth," a place where hospital workers beat the leprosy patients exiled here and forced them into harsh labor, ...

HONOLULU — A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii will reopen this month for the first time since the pandemic, when it closed to shield the few remaining patients, all of whom are ...

BERKHAMSTED England (Reuters) - Writer Graham Greene's novel set in a leper colony in the Belgian Congo would make a great film, the producer of the 1999 film of Greene's "The End of the Affair" said.

XICHANG, China (Reuters) - When the bus driver saw the elderly passengers he'd been hired to drive to a medical clinic, he put his foot on the accelerator and sped away. The passengers were not ...