For this installment of Blast from the Past we’ll be concentrating on Death’s second full-length album, 1988’s Leprosy. Hailing from Orlando, Death were pioneers of metal at a time when most of the ...

Through much of the 20th century, Americans with leprosy were forced to live out their lives in isolation at the National Leprosarium—later called the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center—in ...

WHEN he travels, David Scollard has learned that it’s best not to tell fellow passengers what he does for a living. “The first response is to lean away from me in the seat,” says Scollard, a ...

(Reuters) - Active in the ancient civilisations of China, Egypt and India, and rampant in 13th century Europe, leprosy still affects over 290,000 people around the world today. Here are some facts ...

Leprosy didn't prevent rich medieval families from being buried in the most prestigious graves, reveals new research. Wealthy Danes showed off their affluence even in death by being laid to rest ...

Left to Die, a fearsome quartet of death-metal lifers, are kicking off a U.S. tour this summer. Even better, the tour is a musical tribute to Central Florida DM legends Death’s year album Leprosy. And ...

The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive huts ...

The decline of leprosy in Europe during the Middle Ages may have been due to the rise of a more virulent killer – tuberculosis. A new DNA study of two dozen skeletons reveals that leprosy victims ...