On the other hand, SNOPES labeled this piece of news as FALSE.
SEE HERE:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/leprosy/
(EXCERPT)
The rumor stemmed from a September 2019 opinion piece penned by Dr. Marc Siegel, a doctor of internal medicine at New York University’s Langone medical center. In the piece published by The Hill, Siegel wrote that he feared immigration and a rising homeless population in Los Angeles could be the epicenter of a new leprosy epidemic.
That bit of sensationalism proved tantalizing for many media outlets, which ran with the claim despite the lack of supporting evidence. But if the idea of the dreaded New Testament disease making a resurgence in Hollywood sounds like the plot of a bad movie about End Times, that’s because the claim is false.
The only piece of evidence cited by Siegel was a paper about leprosy cases in Los Angeles. But Dr. Maria Teresa Ochoa, an associate professor of clinical dermatology at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and a co-author of that paper, told us Siegel’s piece is inaccurate and also appears to exploit two political wedge issues: immigration and homelessness.
Ochoa called the furor over a non-existent leprosy outbreak in Los Angeles “the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.” Although Siegel claims that most patients cited by the paper are Latinos “originating from Mexico,” and that therefore raises the specter of immigration driving a rise in cases, Ochoa said that’s simply baseless.
“We don’t talk about immigration or the homeless at all” in the paper, she told us. “I don’t have one patient [with the disease] who is homeless.” The reason most of the cases of leprosy cited in the paper were Latino patients was because of demographics: The area of Los Angeles where the clinic is located has a large Latino population.
Ochoa added that Mexico doesn’t have a major public health issue with leprosy. The countries with the biggest infection problems are India, Brazil, and Indonesia.
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If leprosy is that easily contagious, then the attending staff will also be at risk. They have to stay there and more or less ‘babysit’.
duh
Wow!
Let’s just skip right past going back to Medieval times right to Old Testament times.
Some of the worst streets are literally right outside Adam Schiff’s local office HQ.
LA will blame business owners for something something because they didn’t do something.
Once again, Snopes shows it cannot be trusted on any topic that is remotely political.
“Leprosy Could Hit Homeless Population”
Would anyone even notice?
Don’t armadillos carry leprosy? I’m picturing a homeless bum, reeking of urine, walking an armadillo on a leash down Rodeo Drive . . .
What Los Angeles and San Francisco need are more Armadillos to be released to run wild among their homeless populations.
“Given that a large number of the leprosy cases in the United States involve Latinos coming up from Mexico...”
However, given the richness of diversity that these populations contribute to our national life, a major outbreak of leprosy in the U.S. is such a small price to pay. It would be racist to have any other attitude.
And I am sure many of these outspoken, Trump-hating movie stars will be the first to rush in with ointments to rub on the wounds.
Put all those hot tubs to use?
Old tasteless joke there.
Alcatraz
As Tom Wolfe predicted, we are embarked on the great rediscovery. Leprosy... soon we may have bubonic plague too.
Third World California is going to need Doctors Without Borders.
America is turning into a sh*thole and half the country seems to be fine with that.
Leprosy!
It’s crawling all over me.
There goes my eyeball
Into my highball.......
Anyone know the rest of the song?
Super. An economical solution is to pack all the homeless in L.A. onto tramp freighters and ship them off to the leper colony on one of the Hawaiian islands. Molokai, I think is the one. If there’s an active volcano nearby, that’s a bonus. Nature’s crematorium.
Leprosy and Tuberculosis are both Mycobacterium. Slow growing and thus with slow treatment, best spread in enclosed conditions with exposure lasting weeks or more.
And with exposure, while you might harbor the bacteria, they might not become the full blown disease for years or decades. Antibiotic treatment with just exposure might take a year to eliminate it; with the disease, different antibiotics and a year and a half or more.
In the news: two cases of Pneumonic Plague detected near Beijing which were transported to an isolation facility at an undisclosed location.
The vector for transmission is fleas hosted on rodents, such as the infestation this past summer within the city of Los Angeles. Waiting for that shoe to drop before Leprosy.