No, the CDC has not issued a travel advisory for Florida over rising leprosy cases, despite the surge in Google searches ...

Archaeologists have found evidence suggesting leprosy may have spread to Britain from Scandinavia. The team examined a 1500 year old male skeleton, excavated at Great Chesterford in Essex, England ...

Through much of the 20th century, Americans with leprosy were forced to live out their lives in isolation at the National Leprosarium—later called the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center—in ...

Queensland recorded 29 typhoid cases in 2024 and 45 in 2023. Leprosy is extremely rare with two cases recorded in 2024 and two in 2023. All cases were acquired overseas. Health authorities advise that ...

US chemist Alice Ball was born in Seattle, Washington, on 24 July 1892. She came from a middle-class African-American family of photographers; her grandfather, James Presley Ball, was one of the first ...

The film Kingdom of Heaven depicts the final years of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, but what's the true history behind the movie? Through courage and dedication, Baldwin the Leper King has protected ...