Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a medical mystery brewing in Florida and an unsuspecting, mild-mannered mammal may be at the center of it. Some experts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leprosy can be caused by two different bacteria, one of which was only identified in 2008. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via ...

In this video, Claire Panosian Dunavan, MD, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and Maria Teresa ...

In recent weeks, you may have seen alarming headlines about how leprosy might become “endemic” in Florida. As a physician in Florida who specializes in treating leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease ...

FRANCE – Leprosy is far from eradicated, with 200,000 new cases each year. For the 71st World Leprosy Day on January 26, Dr Christian Johnson, medical director of the Raoul Follereau Foundation, spoke ...

Access to treatment for leprosy is essential to global efforts to eliminate leprosy, says the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of World Leprosy Day, to be observed on 25 January. Leprosy is an ...

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. More ...

Previous research had found leprosy in modern red squirrels, and genetic analysis suggested the strain was closely related to leprosy found in medieval humans. Don Hooper / Loop Images / Universal ...

A study reveals that leprosy patients in India face rising "multimorbidity", like diabetes and mental issues. Experts urge a ...

Fessler, a longtime correspondent for NPR whose husband’s grandfather was sent there after he was diagnosed with leprosy, ...

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 ...

The U.S. has seen a rise in Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, in southeastern states, including in Florida, where the disease might be endemic. Miami Herald File Leprosy hearkens back centuries, all the ...