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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 ...

European colonizers were thought to have brought leprosy to the Americas, but a new study reveals it existed there for thousands of years and was spread by a recently discovered bacteria species.

One of the world’s oldest diseases has an even more complex history than expected. Research out today reveals that a form of leprosy was stalking people in the Americas long before Europeans ...

A form of leprosy affected people in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans, contrary to popular belief. “The narrative around leprosy has been always been that it’s this awful ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent.

We demonstrate microstructural characteristics of lesions in the ventral maxilla and palate that are strongly consistent with a diagnosis of lepromatous leprosy (e.g., atrophy of the anterior nasal ...

Understanding Leprosy: Symptoms, Transmission, And Treatments Available Today With the right healthcare measures in place, we'll wipe out leprosy allowing people to live healthy lives.

All the tests came back negative, meaning despite their growing numbers in Illinois, there still need to be more armadillos to render leprosy a concern like it is in states such as Florida and Texas.

Leprosy is caused by two different but similar bacteria — Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis — the latter having just been identified in 2008.