In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists in over 100 countries, and while the infection is treatable, access to ...

Dr Sandeep Sangale, state joint director (TB and leprosy), said that in those districts and municipal corporations where the ...

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When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

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Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

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

Insights from Toras Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe's father, presented by Shliach Rabbi Dovid Dubov of New Jersey, ...