In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte By sequencing 4,000-year-old genomes, scientists reveal that leprosy was entrenched in South America millennia before Europeans arrived, reshaping our understanding of its origins ...

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously thought.

Five more national leprosy sanitariums during and after World War II have reported administering an experimental drug called "Koha" to residents that caused severe side effects in some patients.

Pathology articles from across Nature Portfolio Pathology is the precise study of the causes and consequences of a disease. The two major components of pathology are anatomical studies of ...

Several questions about BCG vaccination and leprosy remain unanswered, including the duration of protective immunity, whether the protective efficacy in multibacillary forms is different to ...

A collaborative research team led by Kirsten Bos at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in conjunction ...

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