In India, A Renewed Fight Against Leprosy

APOORVA MANDAVILLI, NY Times: Science
Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:30pm

Health workers thought they had vanquished the disease in 2005. But it lived on, cloaked in stigma and medical mystery.

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