Pulse: FollowUp: “We Are Not Afraid to Say ‘Leprosy’”

In his Easier Said Than Done column in April, Jeff Brooks recalled his experience working with a leprosy charity that didn’t want to talk about leprosy. He pointedly said, “How many people have leprosy right now because we couldn’t bring ourselves to say ‘leprosy’?”

The charity Mr. Brooks wrote about was American Leprosy Missions. While I don’t dispute his account of our past, there’s more to the story, and I’d like to set the record straight.