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In the Middle Ages the rodents were kept as pets and their fur was used to trim garments. It is now known due to new research ...

An afrofunk, jazz, blues, and soul singer, Justina Ogunlolu, aka Justina Lee Brown, recently made history when she became the first African to win the prestigious Swiss Blues Award.The announcement ...

Researchers discovered leprosy-causing Mycobacterium leprae in medieval UK red squirrels, revealing the disease's spread.

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Medieval residents of Winchester, England, probably got their leprosy from red squirrels in the area, according to a team of ...

Researchers analyzed 12th-century human and squirrel bones recovered from around the St. Mary Magdeleine leprosarium in Winchester, United Kingdom. Both sets of bones contained evidence of a strain of ...

Medieval people had a lot of leprosy. So did their pet squirrels.

Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as ...

Researchers at the University of Basel and the University of Zurich have been able to prove that British squirrels carried leprosy bacteria as early as the Middle Ages. Further results revealed a link ...

DNA analysis of remains found at medieval sites has identified closely related strains of leprosy-causing bacteria in the bones of humans and a red squirrel ...