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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 663482" data-attributes="member: 8439">it is regretable that incorect assumptions about contagion led to the disease known as leprosy having such a strong social stigma. If I knew a less charged term, I would have used it, but then I would have had to do much more explaining about what I was making a comparison to. AFAIK, leprosy's primary effect is to deaden sensation in the extremities. Those aflicted then don't realize when they have been hurt and don't care for their wounds (I believe lack of surface circulation also effects healing.)A close friend lost her grandfather in large part because of a similar situation caused by severe diabetes. He didn't feel pain in his leg and as a result did not know that an infection was spreading through it until his leg had to be removed. As a very old man, the shock of the operation was quite debilitating. Its interesting to me that you catagorize my response as emotional. Perhaps you read a little to much into my words? Though accusations of emotionalism and by implicaton irrationality are a good way to dismiss an opposing point of veiw. Not a new way to me, but a good way.Kahuna Burger</blockquote>