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CDC warns of emerging strain of leprosy — from armadillos
STAT.com ^ | 11/9/15 | Megan Thielking

Posted on 04/13/2024 6:33:18 AM PDT by DallasBiff

As if there weren’t enough infectious diseases to worry about, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing a warning about a new strain of leprosy — and pinning the blame on, of all creatures, armadillos.

It’s long been known that armadillos harbor one particular strain of leprosy that has occasionally been transmitted to humans. But now, researchers say they’ve discovered armadillos in the southeastern US with a new genotype of leprosy bacteria. It’s also turning up in human patients, where it can cause skin and nerve damage

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KEYWORDS: armadillo; wildlife
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To: DallasBiff

Don’t we get these armadillo leprosy warning on rather a frequent basis these days?


21 posted on 04/13/2024 7:20:12 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: DoodleBob

According to the book “Alas Babylon” they taste like lamb.


22 posted on 04/13/2024 7:20:48 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: DallasBiff

I smell Fauci.


23 posted on 04/13/2024 7:25:05 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: ComputerGuy

It’s rare to see them just hanging around. Like moles, they’re busy excavating.


24 posted on 04/13/2024 7:25:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: DallasBiff

They’re roadkill across the southeast. I see them into KY now. We cooked out burgers with neighbors about a month ago at their place - their neighbor had one wandering around his yard at dusk. This in N. GA.

If they show up here I may have to get a nice high-powered air gun.


25 posted on 04/13/2024 7:41:45 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ComputerGuy

I spent most of my early years in LA and TX. ‘Dillars
abounded and it was a night time activity to get your
gun, head light and go dillar hunting.


26 posted on 04/13/2024 7:45:14 AM PDT by deport
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To: ComputerGuy

I knew a guy who shot one with bird shot. It just bounced off the armadillo.


27 posted on 04/13/2024 7:45:43 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Tax-chick
I've heard them called Possum on the half-shell
28 posted on 04/13/2024 7:49:00 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

So have I.


29 posted on 04/13/2024 7:49:45 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: DallasBiff
Armadillos are Rock(in) the Casbah.

Rock the Casbah

30 posted on 04/13/2024 8:09:51 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam. sic semper tyrannis.)
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To: DallasBiff

Oh, so it’s armadillos exposing kids to TB in publik skrewls...

And to others in migrant shelters...

Uh huh.


31 posted on 04/13/2024 8:14:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ComputerGuy

I never saw one till 1970 road kill south of the Arkansas river in Oklahoma. Now they are everywhere here even into Missouri and Kansas.


32 posted on 04/13/2024 8:14:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: mewzilla

https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/tb-reports/global-tuberculosis-report-2022/high-tb-burden-country-profiles

Boy, do those li’l guys get around!


33 posted on 04/13/2024 8:15:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Wrong bug, but I’m sure they’ll get around to blaming some critter for TB..

In the meantime ..

https://www.paho.org/en/topics/leprosy#:~:text=After%20Brazil%2C%20the%20countries%20with,the%20Dominican%20Republic%20(97).

Time for armadillo control!


34 posted on 04/13/2024 8:19:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Funny, nowhere on that link on countries with highest number of leprosy cases is any mention of armadillos...


35 posted on 04/13/2024 8:22:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

From last year...

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20230803/leprosy-cases-in-florida-suggest-infection-is-endemic-in-southeast-us

Gee, FL must be up to its armpits in...armodillos.


36 posted on 04/13/2024 8:24:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: DallasBiff
Armadillos, not illegal aliens, never illegal aliens, yeah, that's the ticket!

All we have to do is report total leprosy cases, never differentiate between the armadillo and human strains!

We got this!

37 posted on 04/13/2024 8:35:08 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: lastchance; Alas Babylon!; Twotone
According to the book “Alas Babylon” they taste like lamb.

I don't remember that particular passage. Did Two Tone say it?

38 posted on 04/13/2024 8:38:30 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: DallasBiff

Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the armadillo it could be done. Thank you, I’ll be here all night...


39 posted on 04/13/2024 8:45:24 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: null and void

I honestly do not remember. Sorry.


40 posted on 04/13/2024 9:13:36 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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