Posted on 10/16/2014 5:47:11 PM PDT by EBH
For the first time in Ohio history, a prison inmate has been diagnosed with leprosy, state corrections officials said Thursday.
The inmate, whose name was not released, was diagnosed with the chronic bacterial infection on Tuesday at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, according to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
The infected prisoner is a native of Micronesia, a region of islands in the Pacific Ocean, and has served time at three other Ohio prisons since 2011, according to Stuart Hudson, the DRC's managing director of health care and fiscal operations.
He's now being treated at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Hudson said in an interview.
State officials believe that the inmate contracted leprosy while living in Micronesia, though he didn't show symptoms until recently, Hudson said. After infection, it can take up to 20 years for signs of the disease to appear, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hudson said he's not concerned that the inmate will spread the disease to other prisoners or staff, ...
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Leprosy is a very close relative of Tuberculosis. It is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Tuberculosis is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Things they have in common include that they are very slow growing. Typically bacteria reproduce about every half hour, but they only reproduce once or twice a day. This also means that the medicine against them has to be taken continually for months or years.
While TB has come back as a major disease, it’s rather odd that leprosy hasn’t, yet.
I agree. God has given America over to her sins and unleashed pestilence upon us.
And the hits just keep coming.
hmmm...Ebola vs. Leprosy...do you want to bleed out of your eyes, or have your eyeballs fall out? It’s a tough call.
It’s nothing personal against Maudeen because many people here seem to believe in witch doctor medicine. Silver does slow the growth of bacteria, due to interfering with some enzymes, but it doesn’t cure any disease, just as mercury doesn’t cure gonnorhea, edta doesn’t cure cancer, and massive doses of vitamin C doesn’t cure Ebola. Homeopathic medicine (highly diluted compounds) is bunk, and most herbal medicines have little beneficial, effect especially when compared to modern drugs, and some are downright dangerous. People shouldn’t believe in pyramid power or crystals or any other such delusions, but I don’t care. I only care when people tell others that such stuff will cure them, possibly keeping them from treatments that really work.
Hey! I said ‘Pull my finger’ not ‘Pull my finger off.’
The Little Leper Boy
The mainland leper facility is at Carville, LA. Yes, that Carville’s home town.
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