Leprosy, officially called Hansen’s disease, is one of the so-called neglected tropical diseases, Mbakwem said. Now, DPHSS and its partner entities from the public and private sectors have ...

Historians have for a long time believed that leprosy was introduced to the Americas by European settlers, but the latest research offers strong evidence to the contrary – suggesting that Indigenous ...

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In the back, a Wiphala flag representing Indigenous communities of South America. Credit: Nicolas Rascovan, Institut Pasteur A new study reveals that leprosy existed in America long before the arrival ...

He was analyzing DNA extracted from the remains of people who had died thousands of years ago. In one of the samples taken in Canada, he found leprosy — one of the oldest and most stigmatizing ...

A new study challenges the view that leprosy is a disease that was introduced into the Americas during European colonization. It reports that a strain of leprosy-causing mycobacterium, Mycobacterium ...

Leprosy has been present in the Americas for more than 1,000 years, long before the arrival of European settlers, according to a groundbreaking new finding published this week in the journal Science.

Li Huanying (front), an expert in the prevention and treatment of leprosy, leads an oath-taking ceremony to become a member of the Communist Party of China in 2016. [Photo provided to China Daily] ...

Leper is an adventurer with high base stats, great damage output, and a skill set that includes crowd control abilities and immunities. Even though all that sounds great, he's constantly ranked among ...