LEPROSY MAY SEEM like a disease of the past. But, a new report published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases says cases of leprosy have been ...

Cases of leprosy are surging in central Florida, according to a recent research letter shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors said that the Sunshine State has "witnessed ...

The word “leprosy” conjures images of biblical plagues, but the disease is still with us today. Caused by infectious bacteria, some 200,000 new cases are reported each year, according to the World ...

In a study published in Science, researchers revealed that the leprosy-causing bacterium Mycobacterium lepromatosis was present in the Americas for at least one thousand years before European ...

A Florida man’s unexplained case of leprosy last year adds to mounting evidence that the rare and often misunderstood bacterial infection has become endemic to the central part of the Sunshine ...

Share on Pinterest Leprosy is a chronic bacterial infection that can be acquired from armadillos or others with the condition. Johner Images/Getty Images Leprosy cases have been increasing in Florida ...

Alamelu, a gray-haired woman who wears a bright pink sari and a gap-tooth smile, has lived in the Kalvari Nagar leprosy colony in India for 22 years and another colony before that. Her family sent her ...

Medieval residents of Winchester, England, probably got their leprosy from red squirrels in the area, according to a team of archaeologists and geneticists that studied remains from two archaeological ...