Armadillos. Leprosy. Florida. It's hard to ignore news reports that fit all three words in the first sentence. So when we heard that state health officials in Florida have reported nine people with ...

Leprosy — also known as Hansen's disease — is becoming endemic in the southeastern United States, rising scientific evidence suggests. A research letter in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, ...

Leprosy is a disease most people think ended in the Middle Ages, but a new study shows that it’s not a thing of the past. Mayo Clinic researchers wanted to understand how common it was in their clinic ...

Leprosy is much less common today than it was during the Middle Ages, but the bacterium that causes this debilitating disease has hardly changed since then, a new study finds. Reserachers sequenced ...

Leprosy is an ancient disease, a biblical curse and, even in the 21st century, a cultural shame so severe that in some countries, patients are sent to live in isolated colonies or tossed out of their ...

The CDC says Central Florida accounts for 81% of leprosy cases in the state — and the disease could become endemic Getty Florida has seen an uptick in leprosy cases, an indication that the disease is ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Leprosy is on the rise in Florida, according to a new medical report in a Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention publication. According to a research letter published ...