On the Sunday, Dec. 27 airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, the main topics of discussion were leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease and Ticks as I was joined by two magnificent guests. During...

About four or five months ago, every media outlet had jumped on the Florida leprosy bandwagon reporting cases in the Sunshine State linked to exposure to armadillos. What is the status today? According...

Leprosy, the disfiguring bacterial infection that was believed to been eradicated, has taken Malawi health officials by surprise as they report nearly two dozen cases in Balaka district in the eastern...

Florida was heavily in the news cycle about two months ago as the 9th case of leprosy was confirmed in a Flagler County resident. Now, Michigan media are reporting a leprosy case in a man, who is described...

On Friday, Jul. 24, the Florida Department of Health released a Q & A informational video about Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, in light of all the media attention surrounding cases reported in...

Florida health officials yesterday, in an effort to facilitate media interviews concerning the much published leprosy news, provided a YouTube informational video concerning Hansen’s disaese, or...

The Sunshine State has surpassed their average annual number of leprosy cases of ten in July as the latest data puts the state total at 12 with two additional cases reported in the past two weeks. Two...

The number of leprosy cases reported in Florida in 2015 from January to early July has equaled the total cases seen during the entire 2014, according to Florida health data. The 10th case of the year...

The number of leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease cases in Florida during the first half of 2015 is nearly what the Sunshine state saw in all of last year as Flagler County reported the latest case on Friday....

Following reports of leprosy in Volusia County, Florida last month, an Alabama physician says one of his patients is the first known case of the bacterial disease in north Alabama, according to a AL.com...