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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

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Many many moons ago when I lived in Florida, armadillos were everywhere, and everyday I would see armadillo road kill.

I know this article is almost 9 years old, but where have all the armadillos gone?

1 posted on 04/13/2024 6:33:18 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Armadillos have been associated with leprosy for years. And years.


2 posted on 04/13/2024 6:35:21 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: DallasBiff

You vill eeet armadilloz…..and yooo vill be happy.


3 posted on 04/13/2024 6:35:44 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DallasBiff

I’m surprised that “climate change” was not blamed. Good grief, science-challenged liberals, get back to what you’re worst at.


4 posted on 04/13/2024 6:35:48 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DallasBiff

And tuberculosis from opossumi (though it doesn’t transfer to humans-)


5 posted on 04/13/2024 6:38:40 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ComputerGuy

IIRC it’s only the Nine-Banded Armadillos that carry leprosy.


6 posted on 04/13/2024 6:43:24 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Hold still while I count your bands.


7 posted on 04/13/2024 6:48:14 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: DallasBiff

Yeah, I’ll bet it’s from armadillos.

Just lump it in with them measles and TB outbreaks and God knows what else. That’s more likely your source.


8 posted on 04/13/2024 6:54:54 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: ComputerGuy

Nine-banded armadillos can have between 6 and 12 bands.


9 posted on 04/13/2024 6:55:02 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

Yup.

Armadillos are spreading.

First experience in my honeymoon in the South. Along with fire ants.

My theory is armadillos are spreading after the ants which are also spreading. Not supposed to be a major part of diet but it’s awfully strange….


10 posted on 04/13/2024 6:55:20 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: DallasBiff

They are all in my yard during the middle of the night.


11 posted on 04/13/2024 6:57:46 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: DallasBiff

Going home to the armidillo

https://youtu.be/WeBzCEQeP4I?si=WmXpwfjySgLMkW2f


12 posted on 04/13/2024 6:58:32 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Tax-chick

I guess I’ll just have to shoot them all to be safe.


13 posted on 04/13/2024 6:59:25 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: DallasBiff

So that is what we are calling illegals now?


14 posted on 04/13/2024 7:05:05 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: ComputerGuy

Give them a while, and they’ll all be run over by trucks.


15 posted on 04/13/2024 7:06:40 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: Tax-chick

I lived for years in TX, LA and FL and never saw a live one.


16 posted on 04/13/2024 7:09:43 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: DallasBiff

I have wondered the same thing. 10 years ago to now, poof.


17 posted on 04/13/2024 7:12:52 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Mycobacterium leprae can only be grown in armadillo footpads.


18 posted on 04/13/2024 7:13:07 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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Armadillos have been associated with leprosy for years. And years.

Came here to post exactly this. Only the woke idiots at the CDC would call this "emergent." Armadillos and leprosy were associated when I was a kid playing with the little armored soccer balls in the woods. You didn't go an eat tacos after playing outside. There's a reason you washed your hands before dinner.

This society is a freaking mess.

19 posted on 04/13/2024 7:17:56 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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When I drove from Tucson to NH I discovered a new geographic feature/marker which I named the A/R boundary.

It’s a sharp divide (like the Wallace line or the Hajnal line) where on one sid dog the line 90% of roadkill are armadillos (A) and on the other side 90% of the dead animals are raccoons (R).

Hence the A/R boundary. If I ever publish it maybe it will be called the Noble line.


20 posted on 04/13/2024 7:19:25 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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