Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 3, 1865, the Kingdom of Hawaii, then a sovereign state, enacted “An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy.” Any person ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island of Molokai is an unspoiled paradise — the last Hawaiian island that has held out against cruise ships and mass tourism ...

Penikese Island is one of the Elizabeth Island chain that hangs like a string of jewels across Buzzard’s Bay west of Martha’s Vineyard. It has a distinction few places have ever challenged: From 1905 ...

A doctor visits residents of the Bharathapuram leprosy colony. Even though they are cured of the disease, they have long-term effects — crippled hands, blindness, amputations and, most of all, foot ...