Junio’s mother used to come secretly to see Isabel, first resident in Antonio Diogo’s colony (Ceará), because leprosy patients
Junio’s mother used to come secretly to see Isabel, first resident in Antonio Diogo’s colony (Ceará), because leprosy patients have forbidden be in touch with children. Leprosy is also known as Hansen's Disease (and is commonly referred to as hanseníase in medical and media reference to the disease in Brazil), after Gerhard Armauer Hansen, the Norwegian scientist who first observed the bacillus under a microscope in 1873 and identified it as the cause of leprosy. Leprosy does not cause limbs to fall off or flesh to rot. The bacillus does damage the peripheral nerves, causing insensitivity or lack of feeling. Nerve damage is the major cause of disability associated with leprosy. The painlessness that results from nerve damage allows affected individuals to ignore cuts, burns, and other injuries sustained during everyday activities. These injuries may thus become infected or even gangrenous, and amputation is required in some cases.
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