British Squirrels Are Second Animal to Carry Leprosy
Leprosy was passed from humans to squirrels long ago, and may be passed back again.
Leprosy, an ancient, disfiguring disease, has been hiding out in Britain, hundreds of years after it was thought to have been eradicated.
A November 10 in the journal found two types of the bacterium infecting and disfiguring red squirrels in Ireland, Scotland and several isles off the English coast. On one of them, Brownsea Island, researchers discovered a Medieval strain of
