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 ...

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.

Alamelu, a gray-haired woman who wears a bright pink sari and a gap-tooth smile, has lived in the Kalvari Nagar leprosy colony in India for 22 years and another colony before that. Her family sent her ...

The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive huts ...