Red squirrels in the British Isles are infected with leprosy bacteria

Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 14:01 in Biology & Nature

Microbiologists at EPFL and the University of Edinburgh have discovered that red squirrels in Britain and Ireland carry the two bacterial species that cause leprosy in humans.

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