Actually Junio can visit Isabel, but the Capuchin nuns that rule the old colony keep controlling the visits from outside.
Actually Junio can visit Isabel, but the Capuchin nuns that rule the old colony keep controlling the visits from outside. A patient in early stages of the disease often has very minor symptoms, such as a whitish or depigmented spot that is numb. If leprosy is detected and treated during its early stages, patients are unlikely to develop any physical disabilities or deformities. A multidrug therapy treatment program, which cures the disease and renders patients noncontagious, is available free of charge in Brazil at public health posts and hospitals. Why then, is leprosy still such a public health problem in Brazil? Indians Didn't Know Leprosy The answer to this question is complex. One might first ask why leprosy was ever a problem in Brazil. The disease did not exist in the Americas prior to colonization by Europeans. Leprosy was present in Portugal and in other nations that sent ships to Brazil (Holland and France, for example); some of the healthcare workers with whom I worked in Brazil told me that one of Pedro Cabral's (Cabral was a Portuguese explorer whose ship was the first from Europe to land on Brazilian soil) men was infected with the disease. The Portuguese imported nearly 4 million enslaved Africans to Brazil, many of them from areas where leprosy was endemic, and the conditions of slavery (close quarters and harsh working conditions, for example) may have contributed to the perpetuation of the disease.
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