Unchained Preppers
General Category => News & Politics => Topic started by: foki on September 24, 2016, 01:48:50 PM
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http://www.pe.com/articles/leprosy-813960-disease-confirm.html (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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Read the article you linked. Bottom 1/4 reports its difficult to spread and spread dormant about a day after treatment has begun.
Nemo
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its a variation of leprosy - stay away from armidillos :zombie:
https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/ (https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/)
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Armadillos are cool.
Nemo
(http://i.imgur.com/r7dn1SY.jpg)
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:D I've just never heard of leprosy in the US! Kinda crazy...
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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.
Nemo
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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.
Nemo
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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If you get south remember, gators will kill you. Quickly, efficiently and chunky. Do not play with them. You are no more than dinner.
Nemo
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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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We would occasionally see an armadillo where I grew up in Georgia. We were warned that they can "carry leprosy."
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IIRC armadillos are the only creature that can carry the leprosy bacterium and capable of infecting people*.
Nemo
but they are still cool
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Clint says :thumbsUp:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H6EXk5QfQ3s/UW2BcBWFIaI/AAAAAAAAEII/l2s_IjCl_Fg/s1600/clint-eastwood-holding-a-baby-armadillo.jpg)