Infections can cause skin lesions, nerve damage ... wild chimpanzees in West Africa and in British red squirrels. Modern red squirrels have a strain of leprosy closely related to a medieval ...

Most of the human bones exhibited the characteristic lesions associated with ... the leprosy strains found in modern squirrels may not necessarily have descended from the strain found in this ...

Symptoms include ulcers, scabs and weeping lesions on the face ... reds in the search for food and habitat. Greys have displaced red squirrels in most of England and Wales and around 80% of ...

meaning an outbreak can have devastating effects on local populations. It kills red squirrels rapidly, usually within a fortnight of infection, causing ulcers, scabs and weeping lesions on the ...