In the heart of Ghana rsquo;s Upper East Region, the Bongo District is fighting a quiet but devastating battle .

Between January 2019 and October 2025, the Upper East Region quietly recorded 188 cases of leprosy, a disease as old as human ...

One of the world’s oldest diseases has an even more complex history than expected. Research out today reveals that a form of leprosy was stalking people in the Americas long before Europeans arrived.

Organization seeks to bring enduring hope to individuals afflicted by neglected tropical diseases around the world GREENVILLE, S.C. — American Leprosy Missions, a nonprofit helping persons affected by ...

WASHINGTON -- Leprosy is one of mankind's most ancient scourges, mentioned in writing from ancient India to the Bible to the Middle Ages. Now researchers have uncovered what they say is the oldest ...

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 ...

Scientists say a species of bacteria rewrites the history of when an infectious and potentially deadly disease first arrived in the Americas. And it was long before the arrival of European explorers.