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Leper colony

BBC headline: “The Nigerian woman whose life changed when she visited a leprosy colony”

In the current dinky butthurt climate, is it no longer acceptable to refer to leprosy sufferers as lepers, and a colony of them as a leper colony? Or is this just the BBC's usual low-intellect shenanigans? (thinking)

A leper colony is a colony of lepers, people who suffer from leprosy. AFAIK, no one runs a colony for leprosy itself.