The Mycobacteria leprae strain discovered on Brownsea Island is equated to one thought to have died out in the human population in mediaeval times. Despite this, and speculation regarding past transmission through trade in squirrel furs, there does not seem to be a high risk of squirrel to human transmission from the wild population: although leprosy continues to be diagnosed in immigrants to the UK, the last known human case of leprosy arising in the UK was recorded over 200 years ago. See also
Leper Colony
Alice Ball
Maurice Born
Kate Marsden

References
Further reading
Pam Fessler (2020). Carvilles Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice. Liveright. ISBN 978-1631495038. External links

Leprosy at Curlie
Links and resources to information about leprosy selected by the World Health Organization
Both are the inability to plan volitional motor movements for speech production in the absence of muscular weakness. Apraxia is not a result of sensory problems, or physical issues with the articulatory structures themselves, simply the way the brain plans to move them. Developmental verbal dyspraxia
Developmental verbal dyspraxia is a developmental inability to motor plan volitional movement for the production of speech in the absence of muscular weakness. Research has suggested links to the FOXP2 gene. See also
KE family

References

Duffy, Joseph (2013), Motor speech disorders (3rd ed. ), St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby