Maharashtra Public Health Minister Prakash Abitkar on Tuesday announced that the government will set up a state-level ...

To strengthen the fight against leprosy in Maharashtra, the state’s Public Health Department will set up a state-level ...

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

To strengthen the fight against leprosy in Maharashtra, the state’s Public Health Department will set up a state-level ...