A new book tells of how leprosy became a byword for segregation and fear, while the 200,000 people newly diagnosed a year are ...

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Leprosy, also called Hansen’s disease, is primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae bacteria. But in 2008, scientists discovered that a similar species, M. lepromatosis, can cause it, too.Leprosy ...

Leprosy is re-emerging in parts of the world, she says, and rising antimicrobial resistance could make it harder to treat. “Surveillance is very important,” says Geluk.

Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam had reported 299 cases of leprosy in 2019. A recent study analysing 68 of these cases, identified a persistent burden of .

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS ...