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• a  relating to or resembling or having leprosy

• Galen (Hugo Haas) has discovered a secret cure for a leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race.
• All that is necessary to stamp it out is to prevent contagion by segregating lepers and removing children from leprous parents, see that the general population has enough to eat .
• A new vaccine offers hope against an ancient disease "He is a leprous man, he is unclean," says Chapter 13 of Leviticus.