RELATED PHOTO GALLERY KALAUPAPA, Molokai—There is a recent grave at Kalaupapa, and the few living patients on the state Department of Health’s Hansen’s disease registry range in age from 84 to 101.

The isolated, 75-person settlement was founded to stem disease spread. In the 1800s, thousands of infectious disease patients were forced to isolate from the outside world in a newly formed settlement ...

Study: 4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock In a recent study published ...

There is a recent grave at Kalaupapa, and the few living patients on the state Department of Health’s Hansen’s disease registry range in age from 84 to 101.