What causes leprosy and is it contagious? Plus symptoms, how it’s treated, the tragedy of its stigma, and why there was a recent outbreak in the US Story by Anthea Rowan ...

People did not understand how the disease was spread and they were afraid of catching it. More than 200 people lived in the village when the leprosy outbreak was at its worst in the 1950s and 60s. In ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Although leprosy is still endemic to some parts of the world, its presence in the United States is relatively rare. But a recent outbreak in Florida is bringing ...

Standard treatment for multibacillary leprosy is multidrug therapy consisting of dapsone, rifampicin, and clofazimine, with a recommended treatment duration of 12 months. 4 Challenges include ...

Ms. Singh grew up in a leprosy colony located in Patel Nagar, New Delhi. “In school, we had to sit on the floor, apart from the other students. People didn’t want to talk to us, let alone sit ...

Leprosy bacteria may hold the secret to safely repairing and regenerating the body, researchers at the University of Edinburgh say. Animal experiments have uncovered the bacteria's remarkable ...

At the Coast, particularly, at least 50 cases of leprosy are reported annually, yet the disease can be controlled through immunisation. It does not help that babies born in the regions known more ...

In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about a woman whose life changed after she got a skin ailment and later visited a leprosy colony.