How armadillos may be causing the leprosy outbreak in FloridaGrace RaverReuters
Florida. “It was very classic in terms of what you read in the books,” says Dr Dunn. Yet the 54-year-old patient had been seen by multiple clinicians, and none had properly diagnosed him.
The research, reported inThe Journal of Medical Microbiology, identified evidence of a strain ofMycobacterium Leprae(M.leprae), the bacteria that causesleprosy, in ancient DNA extracted from a female skull discovered in Suffolk. "The Woman from Hoxne" is one of a growing number of medieval lepro...
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