Leprosy -- United Kingdom
Microbiologists at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Edinburgh have discovered that red squirrels in Britain and Ireland carry the 2 bacterial species that cause leprosy in humans.
Once rampant in medieval Europe, leprosy dramatically declined by the end of the Middle Ages for reasons that are still unclear. About a century ago, leprosy in Europe virtually disappeared, at least among humans. Examining diseased red squirrels from England, Ireland, and
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