Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling Events
https://digpodcast.org/2025/04/27/cripping-contagion/
#DisabilityHistory #18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #DisabilityHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfMedicine #leprosy #polio #syphilis #USHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons
@maggiejk @eniko
My sister was among those who went on vacation to #Florida repeatedly *during* the #pandemic when it was the worst #Covid hotspot in the nation.
Florida is the "Plato's Republic" of drunk driving (expanding a lesser problem to the size of a city to make it's flaws more apparent.)
The alcoholic behind the wheel always seems to emerge from a crash unscathed. It's the innocent people they run into who pay the price with their lives. 
#Leprosy #endemic
_The Evening Post_, 23 April 1925:
NEW ZEALAND LEPERS
TO BE TRANSFERRED TO FIJI.
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Some time ago it was announced that an arrangement had been arrived at with the #Fiji Government for the concentration of all lepers from British colonies in the Pacific at the Mokagai leper station, Fiji.
On Quail Island, #Lyttelton Harbour, there are nine lepers consisting of four Maoris, two Chinese, and three Europeans.
The Minister of Health (the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare) stated to-day that it had been decided to close the Quail Island station and transfer the lepers from there within the next two or three months. The cost of their maintenance at Fiji would be borne by the New Zealand Government. All the patients had consented to go to Fiji.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250423.2.68
"History comes alive in the voices of those who remember it" - we take a look at documentary The Other World (La Muraille) https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-other-world-2025-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson #VisionsDuReel #documentary #leprosy #film #cinema
“#Leprosy Appears to Be on The Rise in Florida (but keep banning books, drag queens and actual Black history while battling Mickey Mouse and watery beer) #DeSantisDestroysFlorida #DeSaster”
https://www.sciencealert.com/leprosy-appears-to-be-on-the-rise-in-florida
