A Dangerous Word

StoryCorps

NPR

Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this two-part special, we remember a community of forgotten people cast out to a remote Hawaiian island.

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Isay, founder of Storycore.
0:02.6	This message comes from NPR sponsor Subaru, celebrating their share the love event now through
0:07.0	January 3rd.
0:08.2	By year's end, Subaru and their retailers will have donated over $250 million to charity.
0:13.8	Visit Subaru.com-sla-share.
0:21.2	Whenever people talk about something that makes them stick out or feel marginalized, sometimes
0:25.6	until hear the offensive phrase, I felt like a leper.
0:30.1	Over the next two episodes, we'll hear from a few people actually living with this stigma
0:34.7	and how it's effective families through generations.
0:38.0	They don't want to talk about leprosy.
0:40.0	That's a dangerous word.
0:42.0	You know, feel good to talk about it.
0:46.4	It's the Storycore podcast from NPR.
0:48.5	I'm Camilla Cassani.
1:02.5	Leprosy is probably the most stigmatized disease in human history, but the honest truth
1:07.4	is that most people don't know anything about it.
1:10.5	What is it exactly?
1:11.5	Does it even still exist?
1:13.5	Wasn't it eliminated like centuries ago?
1:16.3	Well, leprosy is also known as Hansen's disease, and it's caused by a bacteria discovered
1:21.5	in the 1800s.
1:22.5	It's been around forever.
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