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Leprosy / Leper colonies question
Posted on 10/14/14 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 10/14/14 at 7:53 pm
What ever happened to the colony over in St. Gabriel?
Are there any others around? And WTF is Leprosy? ?
Are there any others around? And WTF is Leprosy? ?
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Posted on 10/14/14 at 7:54 pm to meauxjeaux2
Do you even Google?
Posted on 10/14/14 at 7:56 pm to meauxjeaux2
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts is a great book. It's about the colony in Carville that was also home to a white collar federal prison. That's all I have to add.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 7:56 pm to meauxjeaux2
I thought it was Carrville.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 8:05 pm to meauxjeaux2
Everyone there (Carville) looks like James.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 8:06 pm to meauxjeaux2
There was a colony in Hawaii
Posted on 10/14/14 at 8:53 pm to meauxjeaux2
The main leprosy clinic is in Baton Rouge now.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 9:00 pm to meauxjeaux2
its in carville, and its a terrible disease. I donated 200 dollars to a leper colony and orphanage in India.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:26 pm to meauxjeaux2
This post was edited on 12/20/18 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 10/14/14 at 11:16 pm to meauxjeaux2
This thread is ripe for a Papillon gif. Toussaint: How did you know I have dry leprosy, that it isn't contagious?
Papillon: I didn't.
Papillon: I didn't.
This post was edited on 10/14/14 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 10/15/14 at 1:31 am to meauxjeaux2
I worked at the HDC Research Center laboratories in '96-'98 not long after they had been moved to the LSU Vet School.
At the time I was hired after they were given a WHO grant to find a vaccine. I did research in the lab and field. I also assisted in the "animal house" where we kept the armadillos and nude mice.
I also helped keep the house full by catching and supplying it with local armadillos that I would catch. Caught them mostly on family land and the side of the road. We would inoculate them with the mycobacterium, harvest the animal when it had a high bacterial load, and then test drugs against the bacteria.
Went to Carville 4-5 times. It was a unique, serene place. Golf course and it had a large pond that residents would fish and lots of huge pecan trees
At the time I was hired after they were given a WHO grant to find a vaccine. I did research in the lab and field. I also assisted in the "animal house" where we kept the armadillos and nude mice.
I also helped keep the house full by catching and supplying it with local armadillos that I would catch. Caught them mostly on family land and the side of the road. We would inoculate them with the mycobacterium, harvest the animal when it had a high bacterial load, and then test drugs against the bacteria.
Went to Carville 4-5 times. It was a unique, serene place. Golf course and it had a large pond that residents would fish and lots of huge pecan trees
This post was edited on 10/15/14 at 1:34 am
Posted on 10/15/14 at 4:14 am to meauxjeaux2
There is a government clinic next to the Ochsner hospital in Baton Rouge where they are treated.
Posted on 10/15/14 at 5:03 am to meauxjeaux2
friend of mine used to trap armadillo's and sell them there, only other animal that had leprosy besides humans ....
Posted on 10/15/14 at 8:26 am to meauxjeaux2
In the late 90s/early 2000's i did some work in the old Carville Leprosy dorms that was then unoccupied. the state was turning those dorm buildings into "boot camps" for kids kicked out of schools. State national guard was controlling the facility then, and what few leprosy patients were still onsite were confined to a small handful of buildings.
I remember going to the cantina to get a Coke, and there was a guy in a wheelchair with fresh bandages on hes knee with red leaking through the bandages
I never went back to the cantina after that....
EDIT: Also, after Katrina, they built a makeshift Morgue on the site to take in bodies
I remember going to the cantina to get a Coke, and there was a guy in a wheelchair with fresh bandages on hes knee with red leaking through the bandages
I never went back to the cantina after that....
EDIT: Also, after Katrina, they built a makeshift Morgue on the site to take in bodies
This post was edited on 10/15/14 at 8:28 am
Posted on 10/15/14 at 9:07 am to meauxjeaux2
I can also confirm there are a handful of lepers still at Carville. I supervised a construction project there back in 2012. It's a quaint place.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 8:01 am to meauxjeaux2
I go to Carville every so often for both accounts on site. (The Guard & NHDP) a couple months ago I was told there were about ~12 folks out there.
I just left one of their facilities off O'Neal Ln, and one of the directors was telling me they only see a 'couple hundred' patients across the country. She also says there's only been a small handful of new cases.
But anyway, that's all I got.
I just left one of their facilities off O'Neal Ln, and one of the directors was telling me they only see a 'couple hundred' patients across the country. She also says there's only been a small handful of new cases.
But anyway, that's all I got.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 8:21 am to meauxjeaux2
Back in high school my good friends dad was a Dr. for the Leprosy colony. We went one weekend and played at the golf course. It was half leprosy colony and half white collar prison at that time (1990-1991) Later we hung out in the game room area and there were patients playing pool. It was quite an interesting experience.
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