<P> On the basis of this, they offer a map of the dissemination of leprosy in the world . This confirms the spread of the disease along the migration, colonisation, and slave trade routes taken from East Africa to India, West Africa to the New World, and from Africa into Europe and vice versa . </P> <P> The oldest skeletal evidence for the disease date from 2000 BCE, as found in human remains from the archaeological sites of Balathal in India and Harappa in Pakistan . </P> <P> Although retrospectively identifying descriptions of leprosy - like symptoms is difficult, what appears to be leprosy was discussed by Hippocrates in 460 BC . In 1846, Francis Adams produced The Seven Books of Paulus Aegineta which included a commentary on all medical and surgical knowledge and descriptions and remedies to do with leprosy from the Romans, Greeks, and Arabs . </P> <P> Interpretations of the presence of leprosy have been made on the basis of descriptions in ancient Indian (Atharva Veda and Kausika Sutra), Greek, and Middle Eastern documentary sources that describe skin afflictions . </P>

Where can leprosy be found in the body