Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost ...

The DNA of leprosy-causing bacteria has been found in the remains of people and a red squirrel unearthed at medieval sites in the UK. This makes red squirrels the earliest known non-human hosts of ...

“I wasn’t interested in making another film about leprosy and its history in Greece ... but the way we approach them. I want people to watch our film as a fiction film with real characters ...

India emerges as the global capital of new cases of leprosy; spotlight on more talked about diseases like HIV & Cancer puts leprosy eradication agenda on the backburner. Leprosy is a chronic ...

30 January marks World Leprosy Day. Leprosy is also sometimes known as Hansen’s Disease. Some people believed the illness is hereditary and a punishment from God, but really Leprosy is caused by ...

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family. "My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused ...

Ethiopia, a country of some 130 million people in northeastern Africa, officially eliminated leprosy as a public health problem in 1999, after case numbers dropped below one in 10,000. But some ...