History ❯ Medical History ❯ Epidemiology

Leprosy in the Americas

Indigenous Populations Colonial Impact on Diseases

Ancient Chilean Genomes Show Pre-Contact Leprosy in the Americas

Recovering 4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis DNA in Chile challenges the belief that leprosy arrived with Europeans.

Ancient DNA Reveals Leprosy in the Americas a Millennium Before European Contact