After more than five years of closure, Hawaii’s Kalaupapa National Historical Park will reopen this month with a new ...

On Jan. 3, 1865, the Kingdom of Hawaii, then a sovereign state, enacted “An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy.” Any person suspected of having the ancient disease – which is mentioned as far back ...

When she graduated from college, Brooke Jarvis took a rather unusual job. She worked as a garbage lady of sorts at a leper colony on a remote peninsula of the Hawaiian island of Molokai. When she ...

A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii that’s been closed to tours and religious pilgrimages is reopening ...

Richard Marks, who educated tourists on the Hawaiian island of Molokai about Hansen’s disease and the history of the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement and helped the state end its forced quarantine of the ...

The coronavirus has now infiltrated every county in the US, including the smallest one — a remote Hawaiian island with fewer than 100 residents that was home to a leper colony. Kalawao County, which ...

In the Vietnamese highlands lives a colony of people suffering from a chronic infectious disease that often leads to a loss of sense of touch and pain, physical deformities, and life-altering social ...

A re-enactment a famous medieval fair will be hosted at one of a city's oldest complete buildings. Stourbridge Fair will take ...

Nigeria officially records at least 2,500 new leprosy cases annually, and over 400,000 people live with the long-term ...

Residents of the leper colony in the Alaba Rago area of Ojo and Okobaba Destitute Home, Ebute Metta, Lagos State, are trapped in a cycle of poverty, illness, and neglect. Without access to healthcare, ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities have reported a robbery on a tiny Greek island once used as a leper colony. Police said Monday that power tools were used to break into the archaeological site at the ...