Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leprosy can be caused by two different bacteria, one of which was only identified in 2008. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via ...

Leprosy, as Oliver Basciano notes in his fascinating and humane book Outcast, is more than an illness. It’s a byword, a “cultural artefact” that functions as “a receptacle for nightmares and prejudice ...

In an open-air barn at the edge of the University of Florida in Gainesville, veterinarian Juan Campos Krauer examines a dead armadillo’s footpads and ears for signs of infection. Its claws are curled ...

"Leprosy one of a number of diseases that was associated with race. It became another way to segregate and keep black people from integrating into society." ...

Find today’s readings here. When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And then a leper approached, did him homage, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” He ...

Some 60 miles north of New Orleans, a mud road strays off from the main highway, cuts through rich, sombre swampland I down to the green levees girdling the Mississippi. There, hidden in an elbow of ...

Penikese Island is one of the Elizabeth Island chain that hangs like a string of jewels across Buzzard’s Bay west of Martha’s Vineyard. It has a distinction few places have ever challenged: From 1905 ...

Did the Viking trade in red squirrels spread leprosy in Medieval Europe? A new study raises many questions but provides few solid answers. A research project launched in England in 2016 aimed to ...