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Pilgrim’s Skeleton Found at a UK Burial Site Suggests Leprosy Patients were Not Treated as Outcast during Medieval Period

  British archaeologists have found, at a UK burial site, the skeleton of a young man who had died of leprosy. According to researchers, this man was not treated as an outcast but was given a traditional pilgrim burial. The new finding challenges modern misconceptions that during medieval period, leprosy was linked to sinfulness and […]