Posted on 08/18/2019 11:59:22 AM PDT by catnipman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is rarely seen in the United States, but cases continue to emerge in Los Angeles County, a new report says.
Dr. Ochoa and colleagues identified 187 patients with the disease in a review of medical records from their leprosy clinic spanning 1973 to 2018. Most patients were Latino, originating from Mexico, and they experienced a median delay in diagnosis of more than three years, the team reports JAMA Dermatology, online August 7.
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Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is rarely seen in the United States, but cases continue to emerge in Los Angeles County, a new report says.
Most patients were Latino, originating from Mexico, and they experienced a median delay in diagnosis
of more than three years, the team reports JAMA Dermatology, online August 7.
Supplemental News Source:
https://www.livescience.com/56057-leprosy-california.html
"In 2014, there were 175 new cases of Hansen's disease diagnosed in the United States,
and nearly three-quarters of these cases were reported in seven states:
Arkansas, California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Texas,
according to the U.S. National Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Program.
In addition, a sizable number of the people who have Hansen's disease in the United States
(about 60 percent) were born in another country, Adalja said,
and so it's possible they contracted the disease in another country, but this is not certain."
"There's currently not enough information provided about these two suspected cases (in Los Angelos)
to know where they might have originated, (Dr.)Adalja said.
But armadillos in the United States are known to harbor the bacteria that cause the disease,
and it's possible for people to become infected through contact with the animals,
Adalja said, although the risk of this is low."
Posting of this news in not meant to alarm, but, rather to inform that a medical issue exists.
H/T to Whenifhow !
I did my internship at LAC USC in 82 83. As part of my Derm rotation I worked in the Leprosy clinic. I guess nothing has changed.
And LA is the Leprosy capital of the USA and now the Typhus capital and likely to become the Black Death capital, too. I am sure there are numerous disease once extremely rare in the USA that are becoming more common in LA. I am waiting for a quiet announcement that Smallpox has re-emerged in LA.
Philosophically, culturally, intellectually and medically.
Mine too!!! This is totally disgusting.
They simply cannot wait to bring on the next Dark Age.
Biblical ‘leprosy’ was almost certainly not the Hansen’s disease we now call Leprosy, which didn’t reach the Israel’s area until the early years AD. The peak period for modern Leprosy was the Middle Ages. It tended to be more severe in that era. There is good, curative, treatment available if patients can be diagnosed and if they’ll take the treatment as prescribed for the full course. Both ifs are problematic.
Mine too, which is why I email these articles to my Rep’s.
I took a day course at Carville once. Very educational, I agree. Leprosy takes apart your immune system, but in a different way than HIV. Carville is closed now, but they moved its experts and their research to Baton Rouge. LA is the other research hub, IIRC. Fortunately most people seem to be genetically immune, 97% IIRC.
I’m also theoretically correct for the 999,996.5 per million who won’t have it this year.
Whoops, I attributed the whole yearly figure to one million.
So more accuratey...
It’s also theoretically correct for the 999,999.584 per million who won’t have it this year. (average)
All I know about Hansen’s Disease I learned from the Thomas Covenant books. Nasty stuff if it’s undetected and has progressed.
We almost had “Armadillos’ Surprise” for dinner tonight.
Instead, my wife gave me the crabs. Whoops, I meant we dined on crab cakes this evening.
But those people are not the ones we worry about. The loving empathetic worries about how to keep anyone from contracting it
California’s becoming a third world state - small number of very powerful corrupt ‘elites’ ... shrinking middle class and large numbers of homeless, hopeless, criminals and illegals. What a horror - typical democrat mess - a hellhole in the making.
If they want to address that concern, then talk about childhood diseases we all but eradicated in the US, that are now coming back. This Leprosy article is silly.
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