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Who created leprosy?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No one can create a disease. It is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium leprae.

It was discovered by G.H. Armauer Hansen in Norway in 1873, making it the first bacterium to be identified as causing disease in humans.

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