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

A form of leprosy affected people in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans, contrary to popular belief. “The narrative around leprosy has been always been that it’s this awful disease that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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