Historians have for a long time believed that leprosy was introduced to the Americas by European settlers, but the latest research offers strong evidence to the contrary – suggesting that Indigenous ...

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 ...

European colonizers were thought to have brought leprosy to the Americas, but a new study reveals it existed there for thousands of years and spread by a recently discovered bacteria species. Leprosy ...