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Humans gave leprosy to armadillos – now they are giving it back to us

  • Written by John Stewart Spencer, Associate Professor, leprosy researcher, Colorado State University
An armadillo in the Florida Everglades. Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com

Leprosy is an ancient disease, the oldest disease known to be associated with humans, with evidence of characteristic bone pitting and deformities found in burial sites in India as far back as 2000 B.C.

It’s thus only natural that many might think the disease is a relic of...

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