A new book tells of how leprosy became a byword for segregation and fear, while the 200,000 people newly diagnosed a year are ...

Leprosy, scientifically known as Hansen's disease, has never been common in the U.S., with most cases previously involving people who immigrated from leprosy-endemic areas. But the new report ...

Highest Number of Norovirus Outbreaks on Cruise Ships Recorded in 11 Years The CDC says that it is uncertain how leprosy is transmitted between people, although scientists believe it may occur ...

In the United States, about 150 people get infected annually, according to the CDC. Leprosy is typically spread through extended close contact with an untreated infected person. Casual contact ...

Health officials are seeing more cases of the rare disease of leprosy in Florida, and want to find out why. Are foreign travelers bringing the disease to Florida with them? Are people in the state ...

Instead, spread requires prolonged close contact with someone who has untreated leprosy over many months, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 95% of people aren ...

Leprosy hearkens back centuries, all the way to its reference in the Bible in the Book of Leviticus. People in Florida are talking about leprosy again — and not just in church or Sunday school.

Long considered a disease introduced to America by European colonizers, leprosy may in fact have a much older history on the ...

A Contact Cohorts Analysis (COCOA) study, conducted in four districts of north-western Bangladesh, found that leprosy can ...

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

The film looks at the history of the Hansenites — individuals affected by Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy — through ... way we approach them. I want people to watch our film as ...