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From leprosy to COVID-19, how stigma makes it harder to fight epidemics
The word “stigma” originally referred to a mark on the body. Later it came to denote a metaphorical mark of disgrace. Sociologists define stigma as the social devaluing of people who possess a trait seen as negative or deviant, such as a physical or mental disability or even an ethnicity. Almost every sense of the term comes together in leprosy.