Human Leprosy Found in British Red Squirrels (IMAGE)

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Human Leprosy Found in British Red Squirrels

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Red squirrel with possible leprosy, mild alopecia on ear. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 11 November 2016, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Avanzi at Ecole Polytechnique F&eacute;d&eacute;rale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Red squirrels in the British Isles are infected with leprosy bacilli."

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Karen van der Zijden

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