Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

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

So far, absence of these characteristic changes in the pre-contact American contexts suggests that leprosy was one of the many diseases introduced to the continent in the colonial period. Thereafter ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in ... Archaeological study of human bones from the pre-contact Americas confirm that the time was far from disease-free, but often the traces ...

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The restored birthplace of St. Damien De Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, opens its doors with a new permanent exhibition ...

Borderline leprosy (BL) group is statistically the largest one in number of diagnosed patients, when clinical and laboratory criteria are correctly applied. In our setting, the term "dimorphic" has ...

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Jesus cured 10 persons with leprosy and after they were healed, ... When it gets to the time that I should relate to you as a brother, we'll do things that brothers do.

Leprosy’s history has long been misunderstood. New evidence reveals it was present in the Americas more than 1,000 years ago. Scientists from Colorado State University and the Institut Pasteur in ...