“Those who contracted the disease were not completely shut in, but there were substantial restrictions on their freedom,” said Jesper Lier Boldsen, an expert on medieval leprosy from the University of ...

Leprosy victims taught by a bishop, Medieval Illumination by James Le Palmer, from the Omne Bonum manuscript,1360-1375, ...

The discovery supports the theory that the rodents, may have spread of the disease throughout medieval Europe Red squirrels may have brought leprosy to Britain more than 1,000 years ago ...

Leprosy may have spread between red squirrels and humans between 10th and 11th century in England, research suggests. Evidence gathered from two archaeological sites in the medieval city of ...

Ancient Lepers Well in Lyme Regis is said to date from the 14th century or earlier and to be the only remaining structure of a medieval ...

Red squirrels have been revealed as a likely source of leprosy in humans, one of the most feared and disfiguring diseases of medieval times. Scientists found very similar strains of the disease on ...