Alamelu, a gray-haired woman who wears a bright pink sari and a gap-tooth smile, has lived in the Kalvari Nagar leprosy colony in India for 22 years and another colony before that. Her family sent her ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Mycobacterial diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), leprosy, and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections, continue to impose a substantial global ...

Cases of leprosy have increased in Florida and the southeastern United States over the last decade, according to a n e w re port. Leprosy, officially called Hansen’s disease, is a rare type of ...

Rising cases of leprosy in the Southeast U.S. point to the possibility of the disease becoming endemic to the region, and a high concentration of those cases were reported in central Florida.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recently published research letter regarding emerging infectious diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The CDC says Central Florida accounts for 81% of leprosy cases in the state — and the disease could become endemic Getty Florida has seen an uptick in leprosy cases, an indication that the disease is ...

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 ...

Researchers found leprosy in two far-apart chimp communities of West Africa, suggesting the disease has been spreading among chimps for a while. Reading time 3 minutes An ancient disease in humans ...