Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in ... We know comparatively little about the infectious disease experience of the diverse communities of people living in the Americas before ...

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

President Lee Jae Myung (C) and first lady Kim Hea Kyung (R) comfort a person with leprosy during their visit to Sorokdo ...

One of the earliest leper hospitals in Britain was built in London near the beginning of the 12th century by Queen Matilda, ...

BHUBANESWAR: The state government has constituted a three-member committee headed by principal secretary, Law department to identify discriminatory, derogatory, ...

Erin Entrada Kelly, two-time Newbery Medalist and National Book Award finalist, shares the real-life story of Josefina ...

Five other sanatoriums report having administered ‘Koha’ on an experimental basis during World War II. The drug was developed ...

Five more national leprosy sanitariums during and after World War II have reported administering an experimental drug called ...

According to a report by the Leprosy Mission Trust India, States including Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Chhattisgarh are also home to the largest proportion of people living in ...

So far, the absence of these characteristic changes in the pre‐contact American contexts suggests that leprosy was one of the many diseases introduced to the continent in the colonial period.

Leprosy, as Oliver Basciano notes in his fascinating and humane book Outcast, is more than an illness. It’s a byword, a “cultural artefact” that functions as “a receptacle for nightmares and prejudice ...

Leprosy and Mental Health Advocacy As patron of The Leprosy ... Her independent charity work strengthened her role as a global human person. Diana didn't just attend events like other royals; she got ...