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This study examines the risk of death associated with leprotic infection in individuals from the Danish rural cemetery of \u00d8m Kloster (AD 1172\u20131536). Specifically, we modeled the influence of leprotic infection on age\u2010specific mortality accounting also for sex and social status (lay person \/ monastic).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The sample consisted of 311 adult individuals from the \u00d8m Kloster skeletal collection housed at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark (ADBOU). We modeled morbidity and mortality using a three\u2010state illness\u2010death model with the following parameterizations for the three transition hazards: (1) nonlesioned to lesioned: constant; (2) nonlesioned to dead: Gompertz\u2010Makeham; and (3) lesioned to dead: Gompertz\u2010Makeham, directly proportional to the hazard of the well to dead transition.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The mortality hazard of lesioned individuals exceeded that of nonlesioned individuals by a factor of 1.4 (40%) across all individuals, 1.7 for females, 1.0 for males, 1.3 for lay persons, and 1.7 for monastics. Overall, 15% of the sample died with skeletal manifestations of leprosy, though it is likely that a higher percentage of the population carried the bacterium.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study improves understanding of past health and population dynamics focusing on a chronic infectious disease. 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