TAHIRPUR, India (AP) — At first, Ashok Yadav ignored the patches of pink skin on his arm. But when pale sores erupted on his body and he lost sensation in his fingertips, a doctor issued the ...

Cases of leprosy are surging in central Florida, according to a recent research letter shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors said that the Sunshine State has "witnessed ...

Images released by the CDC from a report on Hanson’s disease show a case of lepromatous leprosy in a 54-year-old man in Central Florida in 2022. Cases of leprosy lacking traditional risk factors have ...

Health officials are seeing more cases of the rare disease of leprosy in Florida, and want to find out why. Are foreign travelers bringing the disease to Florida with them? Are people in the state ...

India accounts for 53 per cent of the global leprosy cases, said experts here urging the need for legal reforms to help individuals affected by the disease. Leprosy/Hansen’s disease is an infectious ...

One of the world’s oldest diseases has an even more complex history than expected. Research out today reveals that a form of leprosy was stalking people in the Americas long before Europeans arrived.

A surge in leprosy cases in Florida has led to fears among public health officials that the disease has become endemic in the Sunshine State. Central Florida now accounts for one-fifth of all leprosy ...