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For thousands of years, people have had an image of what life with leprosy is like. The disease hasn’t changed. Though scientists now use a different name for it. They call it Hansen's disease. That's one new thing we know about leprosy. KUT's Joy Diaz reports, other than that, we still know very little. The good news is that, with treatment, leprosy no longer means a life of disease and isolation.