Research finds evidence of bacterial infections causing the disease centuries before colonization. Leprosy already existed in the American continent before the arrival of European colonizers. This is ...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a minimally-edited transcript that originates from a program that uses AI. Anisa Khalifa: About a decade ago, historian, Kathleen Duval, set out on a mission to write a book that ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and ...

A holiday dedicated to honoring the Indigenous people who lived on this land before American colonization deserves to be ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second ...