CDC warns of emerging strain of leprosy — from armadillos

STAT.com ^ | 11/9/15 | Megan Thielking

[lastchance]

Don’t we get these armadillo leprosy warning on rather a frequent basis these days?

[lastchance]

According to the book “Alas Babylon” they taste like lamb.

[HIDEK6]

I smell Fauci.

[Tax-chick]

It’s rare to see them just hanging around. Like moles, they’re busy excavating.

[FreedomPoster]

They’re roadkill across the southeast. I see them into KY now. We cooked out burgers with neighbors about a month ago at their place - their neighbor had one wandering around his yard at dusk. This in N. GA.

If they show up here I may have to get a nice high-powered air gun.

[deport]

I spent most of my early years in LA and TX. ‘Dillars
abounded and it was a night time activity to get your
gun, head light and go dillar hunting.

[packagingguy]

I knew a guy who shot one with bird shot. It just bounced off the armadillo.

[ComputerGuy]

I've heard them called Possum on the half-shell

[Tax-chick]

So have I.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Armadillos are Rock(in) the Casbah.

Rock the Casbah

[mewzilla]

Oh, so it’s armadillos exposing kids to TB in publik skrewls...

And to others in migrant shelters...

Uh huh.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I never saw one till 1970 road kill south of the Arkansas river in Oklahoma. Now they are everywhere here even into Missouri and Kansas.

[mewzilla]

https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/tb-reports/global-tuberculosis-report-2022/high-tb-burden-country-profiles

Boy, do those li’l guys get around!

[mewzilla]

Wrong bug, but I’m sure they’ll get around to blaming some critter for TB..

In the meantime ..

https://www.paho.org/en/topics/leprosy#:~:text=After%20Brazil%2C%20the%20countries%20with,the%20Dominican%20Republic%20(97).

Time for armadillo control!

[mewzilla]

Funny, nowhere on that link on countries with highest number of leprosy cases is any mention of armadillos...

[mewzilla]

From last year...

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20230803/leprosy-cases-in-florida-suggest-infection-is-endemic-in-southeast-us

Gee, FL must be up to its armpits in...armodillos.

[null and void]

Armadillos, not illegal aliens, never illegal aliens, yeah, that's the ticket!

All we have to do is report total leprosy cases, never differentiate between the armadillo and human strains!

We got this!

[null and void]

According to the book “Alas Babylon” they taste like lamb.

I don't remember that particular passage. Did Two Tone say it?

[GMThrust]

Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the armadillo it could be done. Thank you, I’ll be here all night...

[lastchance]

I honestly do not remember. Sorry.