Posted on 10/16/2014 5:47:11 PM PDT by EBH
Bump!
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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