Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today — and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior
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After she died and just a year after her discovery another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced.