The physician-scientist contributed to advances in understanding and treating the ailment now also called Hansen’s disease.

The widespread availability of free multidrug therapy for leprosy has reduced the global burden of disease by 99 percent since the late 1980s. However, between 2008 and 2017, the number of newly ...

In recent weeks, you may have seen alarming headlines about how leprosy might become “endemic” in Florida. As a physician in Florida who specializes in treating leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease ...

Leprosy is a disease caused by the bacillary microorganism Mycobacterium leprae. The organism has high infectivity but low virulence, therefore most humans are immune to clinical infection. However, ...

A remote peninsula that has been the home of leprosy patients since the 19th century could be opened more fully to the public as the last remaining residents near the end of their lives. Now called ...

EADaily, December 18th, 2025. Leprosy, a disease that seemed to be a thing of the past, is returning to Europe. Confirmed ...

Rising evidence is pointing to the possibility that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern U.S. with Florida being named among the top reported states. In a recently published research letter ...

Romania has recorded its first confirmed cases of leprosy in more than 40 years. The European Union state said it had found ...

Out of the 36 people who were diagnosed with leprosy this year in Florida, 27 of them acquired the disease within the state ...

KAGOSHIMA, Japan — When leprosy patients Tamiichi Tanaka and his wife, Mie, discovered she was pregnant soon after their wedding, they cried with fear and tried to keep her condition a secret. After ...

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is rare in the U.S., but cases are on the rise in Florida. (frank600/Getty Images) Leprosy may sound like an affliction from a bygone era, but the disease — ...