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2spoopy Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Identified in Wild Chmpanzees for the First Time

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Are we closer than we think to chimpanzees?

Scientists have detected leprosy in wild chimpanzees for the first time, and the symptoms resemble those in infected people.

A team of researchers recently found leprosy-infected chimps in unconnected populations in two West African countries: Guinea-Bissau and the Ivory Coast. Facial lesions in several of the animals looked like those in humans with advanced leprosy; genetic analysis of the chimps' stool samples confirmed that animals in both groups were carrying Mycobacterium leprae, bacteria that causes the disfiguring disease, according to a new study.....


https://www.livescience.com/leprosy-in-wild-chimpanzees

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