To: SunkenCiv
As infectious diseases go, leprosy is still one of the least well-understood, in part because the Mycobacterium is difficult to culture for research and it has only one other animal host, the nine banded armadillo.
Interesting. Chimps, gorillas and orangutans can't be infected?
To: AnotherUnixGeek
I'm not a Dr., a microbiologist, nor a primatologist, but I know leprosy is very temperature sensitive, and that armadillos run cold, and I
think we do too relative to other primates.
Even so leprosy tends to attack the colder appendages on humans.
7 posted on
06/14/2009 8:59:39 PM PDT by
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Good question. Dunno. Apparently not, or PETA would be all over this. ;’)
26 posted on
06/15/2009 7:25:53 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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