Armadillos slowly migrated from the west and were first spotted in Tennessee about 35 years ago, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency.

The U.S. has seen a rise in Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, in southeastern states, including in Florida, where the disease might be endemic. Miami Herald File Leprosy hearkens back centuries, all the ...

Leprosy, an illness that can be traced back to Biblical times and is believed to be the oldest disease in mankind, is also known as Hansen’s disease. It can lead to nerve damage and disfigurement in ...

Olivia O’Hearn, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, studies a dead armadillo. Researchers have collected and studied at least 31 roadkill armadillos as part of a project examining their ...

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, ...

Bones from 4,000-year-old human skeletons discovered in Chile contain evidence of a rare form of Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, ancient DNA reveals. Whereas the more common form of leprosy ...

For centuries, leprosy was seen as a divine curse that turned people into walking corpses. This documentary uncovers the truth behind the myths - how the disease actually works, why sufferers were ...

Ancient DNA has become a great tool that allows us to dig deeper into diseases that have had a long history in the Americas." Kirsten Bos, group leader for Molecular Paleopathology at the Max Planck ...

SINGAPORE – NalaGenetics, a spin-off from A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS), will be transforming leprosy treatments in Indonesia with a nationwide genetic screening programme with ...

Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in ...