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National Hansen's Disease Museum

Carville, Louisiana - Old Coca-Cola bottles are displayed at the National Hansen's Disease Museum. Once a facility where people with Hansen's Disease (leprosy) were quarantined for life, it is now a museum that tells the story of the disease and of the patients who lived there and the medical professionals who cared for them. Coca-Cola bottles are a symbol of the fear and prejudice that leprosy inspired. The local distributor refused to take back the returnable bottles, fearing that they were forever contaminated.

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Image Description:	Carville, Louisiana - Old Coca-Cola bottles are displayed at the National Hansen's Disease Museum. Once a facility where people with Hansen's Disease (leprosy) were quarantined for life, it is now a museum that tells the story of the disease and of the patients who lived there and the medical professionals who cared for them. Coca-Cola bottles are a symbol of the fear and prejudice that leprosy inspired. The local distributor refused to take back the returnable bottles, fearing that they were forever contaminated.
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