Carville, Louisiana - The National Hansen's Disease Museum. Once a facility where people with Hansen's Disease (leprosy) were quarantined for life, it

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Carville, Louisiana - The National Hansen's Disease Museum. Once a facility where people with Hansen's Disease (leprosy) were quarantined for life, it is now a museum that tells the story of the disease and of the patients who lived there and the medical professionals who cared for them.

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Size: 6548px × 4366px
Location: Carville, Louisiana, United States
Photo credit: © Jim West / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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