"This reshapes our understanding of the disease's history and raises new questions about how it arrived and spread in the Americas," said Charlotte Avanzi, who studies the spread and genomics of ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that leprosy was present in the Americas thousands of years ago, challenging the belief that ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists ...

Video Jun 24, 2025 / 07:56 PM HST A 59-year-old boater was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday morning after his vessel sank off the coast of Molokai.

A 59-year-old boater was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday morning after his vessel sank off the coast of Molokai.

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

Nigerian massacres: Treating ring worm while ignoring leprosy, by Owei Lakemfa I was in Ndjamena, Chad in 2014 as the then Secretary General of the African Workers, to meet the labour leaders in ...

Leprosy displays a clinical spectrum that is determined by the host immunological response against M. leprae. [6] Differential recognition of viable or dead M. leprae in the natural course or ...

The restored birthplace of St. Damien De Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, opens its doors with a new permanent exhibition celebrating the life of the ‘Apostle to the Lepers.’ ...