Lilly Has Leprosy
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- Move it Sid the sloth! Go sit outside or something. I don't want to catch what you have.
- My mom said that too. My dad also said that people like her can't feel anything and they don't have eyebrows.
- Lilly HasLeprosy
- My mom told me to stay away from her.
- Lilly, what's wrong?
- Mom, please don't make me go! The other kids make fun of me and what if I get them sick? I would feel really bad.
- Your mom let you come to school sick?
- Lilly , you can't get anyone sick.
- Honey you can't get anyone sick and don't let those kids get to you.
- No one wants to play with me because I am going to get them sick!
- I told her! But she said I can't get anyone sick with leprosy.
- Liam was a boy in the 1800s with leprosy, back when we didn't know as much about medicine and health as we do today. Because people did not know better they banished him from the village. If he didn't he would go to prison
- Does anyone know what leprosy is?
- Leprosy
- It's one of the many things Lilly and Sid the sloth from Ice Age have in common, leprosy and being smelly.
- People believed many things. People thought he was born with leprosy and it ran in his family. Some believe it was because of what he ate or the small home he lived in.
- I have a book to read to you all today for health class, it's called "Liam has Leprosy"
- No one wanted to help him or even be around him so he only got sicker. It started with dry skin, then a rash. as weeks passed he began to loosing feeling in his feet, he kept getting weeker every day. Without seeing anyone in months he passed without anyone knowing.
- I feel bad for Liam, people were so mean to him.
- I really sorry for being mean to you Lilly, I didn't know. I wouldn't want you to die like Liam. I would love to get to know you better now.
- I would like that!
- This is why we are thankful for all our medical and scientific advancements. Years later we learned that leprosy is caused by the bacteria M. leprae, it's not contagious after treatment, and over 95% of people are naturally resistant to it. We also have advancements as such to thank for keeping wonderful people like Lilly around.
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