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Leprosy Is Spreading in Florida
Leprosy is on the rise again in the United States, particularly in Florida, concerning disease specialists.
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Sure are lots of diseases making a comeback under Biden!
#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-26 12:06 PM | Reply
Don't worry, fellow Floridians! We can stop this dreaded disease by washing in the Pool of Siloam, or just kneeling in front of Governor DeSantis and begging to be cured. No need to wear a mask, or wash your hands, and parents should not fear about exposing their children to Hansen's Disease (so much nicer a name than that old Biblical reference) at those dirty public schools. People in Florida have nothing to worry about, and this is as safe as drinking water from your backyard well, or visiting the alligator petting zoo, up there on Route 41... --"Doc" Joseph Ladapo, Florida surgeon general and medical expert
#2 | Posted by catdog at 2024-03-26 12:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
What did one expect when the toady Lapdog-o was hired??
#3 | Posted by E1g1 at 2024-03-26 01:41 PM | Reply
How about the return of massive strokes and heart attacks?
#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-26 03:37 PM | Reply
They need to spread polio in The Villages for good measure. Just quarantine the whole state.
#5 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-26 05:34 PM | Reply
They need to start drinking 1 gallon of Ivermectin + zinc + starfish ---- excretions + FOX outrage daily. That will show all the quacks that want to prescribe them 'Deep State Medicine'.
#6 | Posted by zarnon at 2024-03-26 05:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Texas is jealous bigtime... Abbott is trying to bring the Black Plague to his state as a response.
#7 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-26 05:56 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
We can 'diseased' to our list of adjectives for MAGA.
#8 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-03-26 06:15 PM | Reply
*We can add diseased to our list..."
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#9 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-03-26 06:18 PM | Reply
Leprosy is a side effect of the stupidity that is spreading in florida. Stupidity brings a host of other problems.
#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-26 06:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
@ #7
The plague is already in most Southwestern US states. Prairie dogs and armadillos are carriers for it. But antibiotics can cure it.
#11 | Posted by s1l3ntc0y0t3 at 2024-03-26 08:02 PM | Reply
Leprosy Is On The Rise In The US And Elsewhere www.civilbeat.org
... The word "leprosy" conjures images of biblical plagues, but the disease is still with us today. Caused by infectious bacteria, some 200,000 new cases are reported each year, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, leprosy has been entrenched for more than a century in parts of the South where people came into contact with armadillos, the principle proven linkage from animal to humans. However, the more recent outbreaks in the Southeast, especially Florida, have not been associated with animal exposure. The Conversation talked with Robert A. Schwartz, professor and head of dermatology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, to explain what researchers know about the disease. ... Leprosy is beginning to occur regularly within parts of the southeastern United States. Most recently, Florida has seen a heightened incidence of leprosy, accounting for many of the newly diagnosed cases in the U.S. ...
The Conversation talked with Robert A. Schwartz, professor and head of dermatology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, to explain what researchers know about the disease. ...
Leprosy is beginning to occur regularly within parts of the southeastern United States. Most recently, Florida has seen a heightened incidence of leprosy, accounting for many of the newly diagnosed cases in the U.S. ...
#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-26 08:09 PM | Reply
Mounting Evidence Suggests Leprosy Is Endemic in Florida (August 2023) jamanetwork.com
... In recent years, an increasing number of people in Florida have been diagnosed with leprosy who don't have a history of risk factors for typical transmission routes. These routes include travel to areas where the condition is widespread or contact with armadillos, which may harbor the infection-causing Mycobacterium leprae. Leprosy diagnoses in people born outside the US have also been decreasing. Taken together, the trends suggest that the condition, also known as Hansen disease, has become endemic in the southeastern US, according to a report published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The article included a case report of a person in central Florida without traditional risk factors who was recently diagnosed with leprosy. ...
Taken together, the trends suggest that the condition, also known as Hansen disease, has become endemic in the southeastern US, according to a report published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The article included a case report of a person in central Florida without traditional risk factors who was recently diagnosed with leprosy. ...
#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-26 08:11 PM | Reply
Prairie dogs and amardillos are on the menu here in Tex-ass.
#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-27 12:12 AM | Reply
Welcome to the Freedumb state, where you are free to die from many diseases that vaccines have for years kept at bay. Well done MAGAt morons. Here's hoping Dotard and Deathsantis come down with a fatal case of leprosy, they deserve it.
#15 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-03-27 05:18 AM | Reply
Quick, someone with leprosy or some other severe malady, jog on over to Mar-a-lago. Tell Trump that you want to see the hidden documents he still has...
#16 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-03-27 06:54 AM | Reply
"Stupidity brings a host of other problems."
But our governor has kept us safe from drag queens! Trans kids know better than to whine about bullying here!
#17 | Posted by danni at 2024-03-27 09:18 AM | Reply
"People in Floriduh have leprosy under this president but it's the Republican's fault? Seriously?"
-fishbone
#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-27 12:45 PM | Reply
Maybe they can drink a little bleach... could put some light in their veins...
#19 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-03-27 05:48 PM | Reply
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