Independent Lens - Secret People

Seizoen: 1 - Aflevering: 9 / 9 - Eerst uitgezonden: 04 oktober 1999 - Episode ID: 1235781

Although it has conjured horrific images of society's most feared outcasts ever since Biblical days, leprosy is in fact a mildly communicable disease that has been treatable since the 1940s. "Secret People" recounts the shocking history of this disease in America through the voices of victims who live in the last remaining leprosy sanatorium, in Carville, Louisiana.