Medieval leprosy genome explains sudden decline KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com Scientists have decoded medieval strains of leprosy-causing bacteria to solve the mystery of its sudden decline.
June 13, 2013 - UPI
Medieval leprosy genomes shed light on disease's history Scientists have reconstructed a dozen medieval and modern leprosy genomes -- suggesting a European origin for the North American leprosy strains found in armadillos and humans, and a common ancestor of all leprosy bacteria within the last 4000 years.
June 13, 2013 - Science Daily
William Hague in New York Daily News Stoning is a "medieval punishment which has no role in the modern world," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the AP on Thursday. "If the punishment is carried out, it will disgust and appall the watching world."
Pope Benedict XVI in CBS News These (words) were in fact a quotation from a Medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thought,Benedict told pilgrims at his summer palace outside Rome.