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Compulsory segregation does not, however, in actual practice always kill leprosy, for two reasons: 1) lepers hide themselves at home; 2) the disease has an extraordinarily long incubation period???sometimes 15 or 20 years?during which time the incipient leper may be infecting others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leprosy | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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