Mentioned in the Bible’s Old Testament, leprosy has always been rare in the US and can affect the skin and nervous system in often gnarly ways.

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

Leprosy is still rare in the U.S., but researchers say the presence of cases without clear causes may suggest the disease has become endemic —the constant presence of a somewhat controlled ...

Cases of leprosy, or Hansen's disease, have increased in Florida, and health experts fear the infectious disease is now endemic in the Sunshine State.

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...

Analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton from India shows traces of leprosy, researchers report in Wednesday's edition of PLoS One, a publication of the Public Library of Science.

One of my favorite accounts in the Old Testament is found in the fifth chapter of 2 Kings. Taking the advice of his wife’s Israelite slave girl, a Syrian army ...

Analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton from India shows traces of leprosy and may be the world's oldest case.

This 1,500 year old skeleton from the Anglo-Saxon town of Great Chesterford was a young man who had leprosy University of Southampton In the early 1950’s, workers digging for gravel uncovered ...

A close look at some very old bones is shedding light on the elimination of leprosy in Europe, where it was a major scourge until medieval times. Leprosy was common across medieval Europe and ...