Rising evidence is pointing to the possibility that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern U.S. with Florida being named among the top reported states. In a recently published research letter ...

Leprosy could be endemic in the state of Florida, according to a new research paper. Cases of the bacterial disease, officially called Hansen’s disease, have more than doubled in the southeastern U.S.

Cases of leprosy have increased in Florida and the southeastern United States over the last decade, according to a n e w re port. Leprosy, officially called Hansen’s disease, is a rare type of ...

Images released by the CDC from a report on Hanson’s disease show a case of lepromatous leprosy in a 54-year-old man in Central Florida in 2022. Cases of leprosy lacking traditional risk factors have ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida is seeing a rise in leprosy cases that could mean the disease has become endemic in the Sunshine State, according to a letter published by the Centers for Disease Control ...

The ancient disease leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, named for the Norwegian physician Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who first identified the causative agent in 1873, may be endemic in ...

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease (HD), is a disease caused by an obligate intracellular bacillus called Mycobacterium leprae. It has characteristic clinical features, which include: Depigmented ...

Hansen resorted to such an extreme measure because he was having trouble proving his conviction that the microbes caused leprosy—which results in peripheral nerve damage and skin lesions—and that the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida is seeing a ...