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 second ...

In the open-label clinical trial reported here, BDQ4LEP (Pan African Clinical Trials Registry number, PACTR202408643515316), we assessed the bactericidal activity of bedaquiline in 30 patients with ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that the rare strain Mycobacterium lepromatosis haunted the Americas millennia ...

From this type of sample, ancient DNA techniques enable the reconstruction of human and pathogen genomes from the past. In the back, a Wiphala flag representing Indigenous communities of South America ...

A form of leprosy affected people in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans, contrary to popular belief. “The narrative around leprosy has been always been that it’s this awful disease that ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii will reopen this month for the first time since the pandemic, when it closed to shield the few remaining patients, all of whom ...