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Southern U.S.: Armadillos blamed for leprosy (don't eat Armadillo meat)
Telegraph ^ | 04/28/11

Posted on 04/30/2011 4:55:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Armadillos blamed for leprosy

A strain of leprosy found in armadillos has been identified in dozens of people in the southern United States, indicating the skin disease can be transmitted directly from animals to humans.

6:19PM BST 28 Apr 2011

The report published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the disease, most often found in India, can originate in the United States and infect humans who hunt armadillo and butcher the meat.

Leprosy, sometimes called Hansen's disease after the Norwegian doctor who discovered it in 1873, is a bacterial infection that causes lesions on a person's extremities.

About 249,000 new cases were reported globally in 2008, and about 150 cases arise in the United States each year.

Left untreated, it can lead to blindness and nerve damage that cripples the hands and feet, but it is usually curable with antibiotics.

The team of US and Swiss researchers looked at 50 leprosy patients in the United States and 33 wild armadillos with the disease.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armadillos; godsgravesglyphs; leprosy
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To: BobL

Must be good at removing shotgun pellets from games eventually.


21 posted on 04/30/2011 6:24:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: savedbygrace

I dropped a small (less than foot long pecan wood) stick on the head of one to get it out of my garden. That thing hopped, jumped and flopped around like it was in the mortal thrall of death itself!

I’ve never seen an animal put on such a fake show as that. Maybe birds trying to fake an injured limb to draw a predator away from the nest is the nearest thing like it.

I guess it is a survival technique because it sure freaked me out. I thought it was having a fit.


22 posted on 04/30/2011 6:32:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good point.


23 posted on 04/30/2011 6:33:03 AM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is going to upset the AR15.com boys!


24 posted on 04/30/2011 6:35:05 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

hoover hogs


25 posted on 04/30/2011 6:35:54 AM PDT by Charlespg
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To: Charlespg

Obama Oinkers!


26 posted on 04/30/2011 6:39:54 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Must be good at removing shotgun pellets from games eventually.”

I’d think calling in a napalm strike would get the critter and also barbecue it. But I bet the veggies would be overdone, unless you’re talking kudzu or collards.


27 posted on 04/30/2011 6:41:05 AM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization that must be outlawed)
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To: central_va
1 tablespoon brown mustard (e.g. Gulden’s) or Poupon Dijon

Pardon me, do you have any Poupon?

28 posted on 04/30/2011 6:41:34 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: sergeantdave
napalm strike

Would smell like gasoline, though.

29 posted on 04/30/2011 6:42:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: BerryDingle

That photo reminds me of some parts of Maine as much as the south. The body of that old Olds on blocks would be rusted right through if it was, though. I’m calling southeast Ohio. They’ve got union written all over them, those two.


30 posted on 04/30/2011 6:45:47 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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31 posted on 04/30/2011 6:46:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: RegulatorCountry
They’ve got union written all over them, those two.

That would explain why the concrete blocks are supporting that Olds by its sheetmetal floors, rather than the frame rails.

32 posted on 04/30/2011 7:04:02 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Poor Huckadillo is not going to be pleased with this news.


33 posted on 04/30/2011 7:09:11 AM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I am not trying to offend but that is the most unappetizing food/animal/critter whatever that I have seen in a long time.


34 posted on 04/30/2011 7:15:07 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: TigerLikesRooster
*THIS* is news in the UK? It's something *I* personally have known for about three decades now, when I was first stationed at Ft Hood, TX in 1981. We were constantly warned about the linkage between the local wildlife (armadillos) and leprosy...

the infowarrior

35 posted on 04/30/2011 7:16:49 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"I know all about th' armadilla!"


36 posted on 04/30/2011 7:19:26 AM PDT by bannie ("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul." ))
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To: bannie

What did the leper say to the prostitute?

You can keep the tip.


37 posted on 04/30/2011 7:23:56 AM PDT by TStro
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To: TStro

GACK!


38 posted on 04/30/2011 7:26:04 AM PDT by bannie ("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul." ))
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To: Charles Martel

Nobody said they were bright, lol.


39 posted on 04/30/2011 7:29:02 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: bannie

Why was the leper hockey game canceled? There was a face off in the corner.


40 posted on 04/30/2011 7:33:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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