The nine-banded armadillo has followed trails of ants and along the side of roads all the way across the country to East Tennessee.

But a recent outbreak in Florida is bringing leprosy and its believed cause — the armadillo — into the modern spotlight. Produced by Grace Raver. Video courtesy of Reuters. Follow TI Video ...

FIU infectious diseases expert Dr. Aileen Marty says leprosy is carried by animals like armadillos and can be acquired by breathing in the bacteria. Dr. Marty says 95-percent of the population has ...

Kendall, Rambukkana, and their colleagues first made a series of detailed analyses on livers removed from armadillos that had been infected for 10 to 30 months. The liver-to-body-weight ratio was ...