T he World Health Organization (WHO) has officially verified Chile as having eliminated leprosy, making it the first country in the Americas to do so and only the second worldwide.

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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.

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A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously thought. That's based on an analysis of ...

(Reuters) - Active in the ancient civilisations of China, Egypt and India, and rampant in 13th century Europe, leprosy still affects over 290,000 people around the world today. Here are some facts ...

Scientists say a species of bacteria rewrites the history of when an infectious and potentially deadly disease first arrived in the Americas. And it was long before the arrival of European explorers.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers analyzed Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains, revealing a long history of leprosy ...

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