Posted on 07/31/2023 9:11:56 AM PDT by algore
Florida has seen a huge surge in leprosy cases, with rising evidence suggesting the disease is becoming endemic in the southeastern United States.
Leprosy, which is scientifically known as Hansen's disease, is a chronic infectious disease that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system.
The number of reported leprosy cases in the southeastern states has more than doubled over the past decade, according to the CDC.
Florida is witnessing an increase in leprosy cases lacking traditional risk factors, the body added.
It noted that Central Florida accounts for 81 per cent of cases reported in the state and almost one fifth of cases reported nationally.
There were 159 new cases reported in the US in 2020, the CDC said in a recently published research letter regarding emerging infectious diseases, citing data from the National Hansen's Disease Program.
Nearly 70 per cent of these new cases were reported in Florida, California, Louisiana, Hawaii, New York and Texas.
The CDC recommended that travel to Florida be considered when conducting leprosy contact tracing in any state.
It said several new-case patients in central Florida demonstrated no clear evidence of zoonotic exposure - transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans - or traditionally known risk factors.
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I’ve killed a few.......................
Let the Marxist Dems recruit more diseased illegals so more Americans will die.
Crazy.
The good news is that leprosy responds well to a combination of antibiotics.
Yep, and Florida has millions of them.
That is a central area for foreigners.
I wonder if there’s any “abandoned” rat and infectious disease warehouses in Central Florida like they found in Central CA in Reedly?
I have a sister who lives in Waynesboro. They have tons of armadillos there and they said the neighbors shoot them. I told her to get a gun but she’s reluctant. They moved there two years ago from Washington state so these animals seem very foreign to them. They make big holes in your lawn.
Too many people touching turtles and snakes and other ground dwelling creatures.
Armadillos are the animals used to study leprosy.
A friend from Florida contracted Hansens years ago. His arms looked like they had been severely burned. He mentioned armadillos...
I wonder if it’s been weaponized thru illegals now. So CDC says leprosy spread by droplets-sneezing etc and NOT by tactile casual contact. Then how do get it from an armadillo? Armadillo sneezes in your face? Something is off. Other sites about leprosy also say spread through droplets but not through casual contact- but prolonged exposure. SO why are there all these cases? Per American Academy of Dermatology Association: “Because so many people are immune, how we catch it is still a bit of a mystery.
Scientists have learned that to catch leprosy, a healthy person must have months of close contact with someone who has leprosy. It’s believed that the disease spreads when a person who has leprosy coughs or sneezes. When a healthy person repeatedly breathes in the infected droplets, this may spread the disease.
It takes a lot of exposure to catch leprosy. If someone has leprosy, a single handshake or few hours spent sitting next to that person won’t spread the disease. You’d have to shake hands or sit next to that person often to get leprosy.
You can also get leprosy from an armadillo. It’s possible to catch the disease by handling an armadillo or spending time in an area where these animals live.”
Yes, but US was last hold out so to speak, there’s no where left to go!!
I think some people eat armadillos...preparing them would require extensive handling.
Gross
If I lived somewhere like that, I’d be plinking them with a .22 in a heartbeat.
But… DeSantis doesn’t allow illegals…right? Right?
Do armadillos carry leprosy? Some say yes, some say no:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=do+armadillos+carry+leprosy&t=newext&atb=v263-1&ia=web
This Dermatologist says armadillos can carry it. The disease grows better at lower temps than most mammals innards. Which why it mostly affects skin in people. Armadillos have cooler. Body temps than most mammals, so are good hosts for it. And BTW, what we now call leprosy likely had nothing to do with what the Bible called it. It can leave diagnostic changes in bones and none such ever found in holy land have dated earlier than 1st century AD. With the oldest such buried in a way to suggest judaeans then considered it a novel scary disease. Bony changes showing what we now call leprosy have been dating back to biblical times, but not then in the biblical area. Biblical “leprosy” was likely multiple different (by modern criteria) diseases sharing prominent skin changes.
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