Posted on 04/13/2024 6:33:18 AM PDT by DallasBiff
As if there weren’t enough infectious diseases to worry about, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing a warning about a new strain of leprosy — and pinning the blame on, of all creatures, armadillos.
It’s long been known that armadillos harbor one particular strain of leprosy that has occasionally been transmitted to humans. But now, researchers say they’ve discovered armadillos in the southeastern US with a new genotype of leprosy bacteria. It’s also turning up in human patients, where it can cause skin and nerve damage
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I know this article is almost 9 years old, but where have all the armadillos gone?
Armadillos have been associated with leprosy for years. And years.
You vill eeet armadilloz…..and yooo vill be happy.
I’m surprised that “climate change” was not blamed. Good grief, science-challenged liberals, get back to what you’re worst at.
And tuberculosis from opossumi (though it doesn’t transfer to humans-)
IIRC it’s only the Nine-Banded Armadillos that carry leprosy.
Hold still while I count your bands.
Yeah, I’ll bet it’s from armadillos.
Just lump it in with them measles and TB outbreaks and God knows what else. That’s more likely your source.
Nine-banded armadillos can have between 6 and 12 bands.
Yup.
Armadillos are spreading.
First experience in my honeymoon in the South. Along with fire ants.
My theory is armadillos are spreading after the ants which are also spreading. Not supposed to be a major part of diet but it’s awfully strange….
They are all in my yard during the middle of the night.
I guess I’ll just have to shoot them all to be safe.
So that is what we are calling illegals now?
Give them a while, and they’ll all be run over by trucks.
I lived for years in TX, LA and FL and never saw a live one.
I have wondered the same thing. 10 years ago to now, poof.
Mycobacterium leprae can only be grown in armadillo footpads.
Came here to post exactly this. Only the woke idiots at the CDC would call this "emergent." Armadillos and leprosy were associated when I was a kid playing with the little armored soccer balls in the woods. You didn't go an eat tacos after playing outside. There's a reason you washed your hands before dinner.
This society is a freaking mess.
When I drove from Tucson to NH I discovered a new geographic feature/marker which I named the A/R boundary.
It’s a sharp divide (like the Wallace line or the Hajnal line) where on one sid dog the line 90% of roadkill are armadillos (A) and on the other side 90% of the dead animals are raccoons (R).
Hence the A/R boundary. If I ever publish it maybe it will be called the Noble line.
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