An international team led by the University of Leiden examined a 1500 year old male skeleton, excavated at Great Chesterford in Essex (southeast England) during the 1950s. The bones of the man, probably in his 20s, show changes consistent with leprosy, such as narrowing of the toe bones and damage to the joints, suggesting a very early British case. Modern scientific techniques applied by the researchers have now confirmed the man did suffer from the disease and that he may have come from southern Scandinavia.
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Marius Hoppe
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