Leprosy at Kos

Paleopathological analysis of Paleochristian burials from the Greek island of Kos discovered possible evidence of leprosy based on thinning of the metatarsals of the foot and periosteal lesions on the long bones. No craniofacial changes reported.

Mentioned on page 16 in in Bioarchaeological Approaches to Aegean Archaeology

Jane Buikstra and Anna Lagia
Hesperia Supplements
Vol. 43, New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece (2009), pp. 7-29 which references Lagia, A., E. I. Petroutsa, and S. K. Manolis. 2002. "A Demographic and Paleopathological Assessment of a Paleochristian Population from the Island of Kos," in Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of Hellenic Society for Biological Sciences, Eretria, Euboea Island, May 23–24, 2002, pp. 163–164.

Publisher

http://www.jstor.org/stable/27759954

Date

2nd - 4th century A.D.

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