leprosy

Inside Tenerife’s eerie ghost town of Sanatorio de Abona, built to quarantine leprosy victims

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Inside Tenerife’s eerie ghost town, built to isolate the sick to prevent the spread of leprosy – but never used after a cure was found Sanatorio de Abona, on the southeast coast, was designed in 1943 as a town where the sick could quarantine Following the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, there were around … Read more

Wild chimps found to be infected with leprosy for the first time 

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Wild chimpanzees have been found to be infected with leprosy for the first time, in two locations in West Africa that are separated by hundreds of miles. Experts discovered two wild chimp populations, in Guinea-Bissau’s Cantanhez National Park and Taï National Park in Ivory Coast, that are infected with the disease, as confirmed by faecal samples.   Leprosy – which … Read more