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foki

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Hansens Disease in the USA??
« on: September 24, 2016, 01:48:50 PM »
http://www.pe.com/articles/leprosy-813960-disease-confirm.html

Anyone hear about this??

Thoughts? I'm not too familiar with Hansens Disease, but isn't it quite transmissible?
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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2016, 07:29:08 PM »
Read the article you linked.  Bottom 1/4 reports its difficult to spread and spread dormant about a day after treatment has begun.

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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2016, 12:19:54 AM »
its a variation of leprosy - stay away from armidillos  :zombie:
https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/
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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2016, 09:55:46 AM »
Armadillos are cool.

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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2016, 10:11:49 AM »
 :D I've just never heard of leprosy in the US! Kinda crazy...
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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2016, 04:10:45 PM »
Its a rare disease here and I was a bit surprised to find out it was in the US.  But remember, armadillos are cool.  But stay away from them.  Unless you are really really hungry and nothing else around.

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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2016, 04:14:27 PM »
Quote from: Nemo on September 26, 2016, 04:10:45 PM
Its a rare disease here and I was a bit surprised to find out it was in the US.  But remember, armadillos are cool.  But stay away from them.  Unless you are really really hungry and nothing else around.

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We don't have to worry about Armadillos here in Northeast Ohio, but i'll remember that if SHTF drives us south  :thumbsUp:

I DID read however that they found alligators in a couple lakes RIGHT NEAR HERE!???!! Now that's weird and freaky - unless it was a hoax, which I haven't seen anything to prove it was.
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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2016, 04:17:09 PM »
If you get south remember, gators will kill you.  Quickly, efficiently and chunky.  Do not play with them.  You are no more than dinner.

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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2016, 08:36:41 AM »
Leprosy in the US of A was never very common - not common world wide, low transmission rates.  Just very dire and scary.
the reason us pampered people in the 2000's don't know much about it is the same reason we don't hear about tuberculosis or typhoid very often.  Antibiotics and hygiene cured many of the diseases that used to be nightmare fodder.  pi :)
... and now critters are migrating in weird patterns and the bugs some carry aren't scared of antibiotics anymore.
- how about something less exotic (for me at least) but closer to home for many of us.
Look at the MRSA rates at hospitals within a few miles (aerosol range) of CAFO type pig farms with open manure lagoons.  There may be a link between the fertilizer spray and disease transmission to people with immune issues or open wounds.
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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2016, 04:13:18 PM »
We would occasionally see an armadillo where I grew up in Georgia.  We were warned that they can "carry leprosy."
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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2016, 07:13:55 PM »
IIRC armadillos are the only creature that can carry the leprosy bacterium and capable of infecting people*.

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but they are still cool
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Re: Hansens Disease in the USA??
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2016, 08:14:53 PM »
Clint says  :thumbsUp:

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