Researchers have uncovered what they say is the oldest case of leprosy yet found.
Analysis of a 4000-year-old skeleton from India shows traces of the disease, researchers report in PLoS One, a publication of the Public Library of Science.
The skeleton was buried about 2000 BC at thesite of Balathal, a large settlement in what is now Rajasthan, according to Gwen Robbins, an anthropologist at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
