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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist and former mental health nurse

Daniel Allen suggests compulsory quarantine for the miscreants who sneeze on him

I have finished reading a novel about leprosy, which I enjoyed even though it made me itch a bit. Based on fact, The Island by Victoria Hislop describes the enforced segregation of Greek people with leprosy on an island off the Cretan coast.

Nursing Standard. 21, 10, 26-26. doi: 10.7748/ns.21.10.26.s28

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