I'm not a Dr., a microbiologist, nor a primatologist, but I know leprosy is very temperature sensitive, and that armadillos run cold, and I think we do too relative to other primates.
Even so leprosy tends to attack the colder appendages on humans.
7 posted on 06/14/2009 8:59:39 PM PDT by null and void
(We are now in day 146 of our national holiday from reality.)