Leprosy caught the country’s attention last month when a slew of media accounts, including this news source, reported on a slight increase in cases in recent months in Volusia County, Florida. An...

There has been a number of Florida news reports in the past couple days concerning three cases of Hansen’s Disease, or leprosy in Volusia County during the past 5 months. Volusia County health...

It was confirmed this past Tuesday that an inmate at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, OH has been diagnosed with the bacterial infection, leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease. According...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary With the advent of modern antibiotics – Hansen’s Disease, aka Leprosy – has been vastly reduced around the globe over the past couple of decades,...

In many parts of the world, leprosy and tuberculosis live side-by-side. Worldwide there are approximately 233,000 new cases of leprosy per year, with nearly all of them occurring where tuberculosis is...

The youngest leprosy patient in Kalaupapa from the remote northern peninsula of Molokai was charged with trying to ship methamphetamine from Honolulu to Kalaupapa last month. Allegedly, the 68 year old...