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Shedding Light on NTDs: Leprosy

August 1, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  When a 4,000-year-old skeleton located in Rajasthan, India was unearthed in 2009, archeologists were not expecting to find Mycobacterium leprae present (1). This finding provided

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Drug-Resistant Leprosy Emerges in West Africa

September 9, 2016January 25, 2023 Kara Sewalk

  A recent publication in the Clinical Infectious Disease Journal highlights an investigation identifying a cluster of Guinean patients with drug resistant leprosy infections [1].

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Ohio Inmate Diagnosed with Leprosy Begins Treatment

October 26, 2014January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

On Tuesday, October 14, an inmate at Ohio’s Chillicothe Correctional Institution was diagnosed with Hansen’s disease, a disease also known as leprosy. According to local Ohio

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Spotlight on Leprosy: Two Thousand Years of Solitude

August 8, 2012January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

Leper (noun): a person who is ignored or despised. The leper is historically depicted as an outcast, a criminal, and most certainly someone to be

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