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

Pune: The Maharashtra govt has officially declared leprosy a "notifiable disease" to curb its spread and ensure timely treatment of patients. This directive, announced via a state health department ...

In a major boost to fight leprosy, the Maharashtra government on Saturday declared that the chronic infectious condition is a “notifiable disease”. The mandate will help curb the spread of leprosy and ...

New Delhi: In a major boost to fight leprosy, the Maharashtra government on Saturday declared that the chronic infectious condition is a “notifiable disease”. The mandate will help curb the spread of ...

Brazil has the second largest number of leprosy cases in the world; nevertheless, late diagnosis is common. We report the case of a male patient with pain and numbness in both hands and feet for six ...

BACKGROUND The lepromatous pole is a stigmatising prototype for patients with leprosy. Generally, these patients have little or no symptoms of peripheral nerve involvement at the time of their ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of a disease that has long carried both medical and cultural weight. Their ...

Paleoradiology uses CT scanning, digital radiography, and 3D imaging to non-invasively characterize the lives and the experience of health and disease for past people. This paper presents an analysis ...

Leprosy is on the rise again in the United States, particularly in Florida, concerning disease specialists. According to the World Health Organization, about 200,000 cases of the disease occur every ...