08 July 2019

VIKINGS BROUGHT ONE FORM OF LEPROSY TO IRELAND

Wow!  Vikings who brought Slaves to Ireland from Scandinavia may have also brought a form of   LEPROSY!  Skeletons tested revealed two forms of the disease.

IRISH CENTRAL - VIKING TO IRELAND and LEPROSY

EXCERPT: Professor Eileen Murphy from the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University Belfast said: "Ireland is of particular interest in the history of leprosy as it was never part of the Roman world, nor underwent any significant occupation by later Anglo-Saxon settlers."