https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-armadillos-can-spread-leprosy-180954440/
it is not very infectious person to person, but some cases in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia were caused by direct contact with such animals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6746198/
It is easily treated with drugs. The main problem? Few American doctors have seen it.
Despite working in Africa, I have only seen one case, and that was a minor lesion that I biopsied thinking it was skin cancer. Another case that I biopsied turned out to be Kaposi's sarcoma, but one of our sisters had worked with lepers and she said it didn't smell like leprosy.
One of the subplots of the book Covenant of Water is about a doctor who treats leprosy patients before the treatment was available.
In the 1980s I worked with a nun who held clinics that gave out the medicine to people in villages in Liberia. So it is easily treated. The problem? Once the damage is done, it takes a specialist plastic surgeon or hand surgeon to fix it.
There is a resident in the apartment complex I live in that has it.
Bumps on bumps on bumps all over his head/face and arms (no idea how bad it is on the rest of the body, since it is always covered up).
I am glad I live on the first floor since I don’t have to touch the hand railing.. he always has puss oozing out of the lesions on his hands and arms.
I have expressed my concern to the landlord, but she just brushes it off.