Yes, a lot of things were conflated with lepra until fairly recently. Or maybe it's more fair to the doctors of the past to say that leprosy was more of a sympt

Yes, a lot of things were conflated with lepra until fairly recently. Or maybe it's more fair to the doctors of the past to say that leprosy was more of a symptom to them, like a fever or anemia, which could have many different underlying causes. A lot of bacterial skin diseases, fortunately no longer an issue today, can cause symptoms similar to lepra.