In the past, people with leprosy were sent to remote quarantine islands, known as leper colonies. Thanks to medical ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulated Jordan for becoming the first country to officially eliminate leprosy. This ...

That was how this leper was completely delivered from the spirit of leprosy! Remember, Our Lord Jesus was moved with Compassion when he saw the leper. He did not refer him to the medical doctors ...

A beautiful Greek island that was once a powerful fortress is now abandoned over its controversial pirate-related history, ...

AUSTINTOWN — A local pastor and church organization have helped those in India battling leprosy by taking part in the Leper Project, which involved the construction this year of a special ...

The church of Saint-Thomas, which served the leper community from the later twelfth century, is a functioning parish church today, while the nave of the earlier twelfth-century church of Saint- ...

Leprosy has existed for more than 3,000 years and is the one of the oldest diseases known to humanity. Though a cure is available, 200,000 individuals are still diagnosed with the disease each year.

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

The Grade I-listed Leper Chapel, just off Abbey Road in Cambridge ... the chapel of an isolation hospital caring for people with leprosy. At various points in its history, it has been a place ...

Leprosy and its sufferers had a distinctive impact on the society and religious culture of Rouen between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. A detailed study of the city's leper houses thus sheds ...