Researchers found traces of Mycobacterium lepromatosis in thousand-year-old human remains in Canada and Argentina.

“Somebody was asking about that today. And I told them, I said ‘Those sores and abrasions — modern-day leprosy,’” she said, pausing between each word. “(It’s) modern-day leprosy.

One factor of interest to the report’s researchers is the origin of modern leprosy cases in Florida. “Whereas leprosy in the United States previously affected persons who had immigrated from ...

"The finding of leprosy in modern squirrels was surprising and then it's incredible that we found it in the medieval period," said study co-author Dr Sarah Inskip of the University of Leicester.

The team analyzed hundreds of samples collected from modern-day people (mostly recent leprosy patients), as well as ancient DNA samples recovered from people in the Americas before European contact.

Leprosy is a stigmatizing and disabling disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae, followed by a persistent inflammation immune attack against the bacterial antigen. According to Dr ...

Leprosy resurfaces in India due to climate change, poverty, and stigma, demanding urgent interventions and visibility.

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

Early, the ex-soldier, whose life was made miserable for more than a year because he was supposed to have leprosy, while really he was afflicted with a comparatively trivial and readily curable ...