New research has rewritten the history of leprosy in the Americas. Scientists have discovered genetic evidence that a rare strain of the disease, known as Mycobacterium lepromatosis, existed in South ...

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In the mid-1990s, my then-husband passed away from complications of HIV/AIDS. From the time he was diagnosed until he died, all of us, friends and family, but most of all, him, knew how it would end.

The film Kingdom of Heaven depicts the final years of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, but what's the true history behind the movie? Through courage and dedication, Baldwin the Leper King has protected ...

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

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

A major cholera outbreak, thought to have started at a popular Lexington tavern, killed about 7% of the city’s population in 1833.

(AP) - Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been 1,267 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease ...

Is leprosy still a threat today? Though the disease has been curable for decades, over 200,000 people still suffer from it worldwide. How did leprosy go from a feared curse to a treatable illness ...