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Chile Officially Eliminates Leprosy, The First Country In The Americas To Do SoFlag of Chile flying in the wind, against a blue sky with clouds

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Chile Officially Eliminates Leprosy, The First Country In The Americas To Do SoFlag of Chile flying in the wind, against a blue sky with clouds
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Chile Officially Eliminates Leprosy, The First Country In The Americas To Do So

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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval Englandred squirrel sitting on a branch against a green backdrop

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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval Englandred squirrel sitting on a branch against a green backdrop
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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval England

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Leprosy Is On The Rise In Florida And No One Knows WhyThe face of a young man with leprosy taken from George Thin's 1891 book "Leprosy."

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Leprosy Is On The Rise In Florida And No One Knows WhyThe face of a young man with leprosy taken from George Thin's 1891 book "Leprosy."
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Leprosy Is On The Rise In Florida And No One Knows Why

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Earliest Evidence Of Bronze Age Brain Surgery Discovered In IsraelBronze Age trephination skeleton

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Earliest Evidence Of Bronze Age Brain Surgery Discovered In IsraelBronze Age trephination skeleton
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Earliest Evidence Of Bronze Age Brain Surgery Discovered In Israel

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Leprosy Seen In Wild Chimpanzees For The First Timearticle image

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Leprosy Seen In Wild Chimpanzees For The First Time

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This Debilitating Disease Might Have Totally Unexpected Originsarticle image

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This Debilitating Disease Might Have Totally Unexpected Originsarticle image
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This Debilitating Disease Might Have Totally Unexpected Origins

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Leprosy Is Gaining Resistance To Drugs, Genome Study Showsarticle image

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Leprosy Is Gaining Resistance To Drugs, Genome Study Showsarticle image
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Leprosy Is Gaining Resistance To Drugs, Genome Study Shows

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The Viking Squirrel Trade May Have Brought Leprosy To The British Islesarticle image

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The Viking Squirrel Trade May Have Brought Leprosy To The British Islesarticle image
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The Viking Squirrel Trade May Have Brought Leprosy To The British Isles

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Red Squirrels In The UK Are Infected By Human Leprosyarticle image

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Red Squirrels In The UK Are Infected By Human Leprosyarticle image
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Red Squirrels In The UK Are Infected By Human Leprosy

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Squirrel Leprosy Experiment To Take Place In Southern Englandarticle image

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Squirrel Leprosy Experiment To Take Place In Southern Englandarticle image
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Squirrel Leprosy Experiment To Take Place In Southern England

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Spike In Leprosy Cases Linked to Armadillosarticle image

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Spike In Leprosy Cases Linked to Armadillos

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Earliest Case of Leprosy in the UK Found in 1,500-Year-Old Skeletonarticle image

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Earliest Case of Leprosy in the UK Found in 1,500-Year-Old Skeletonarticle image
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Earliest Case of Leprosy in the UK Found in 1,500-Year-Old Skeleton

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