Post by miamianne67 on Aug 3, 2023 14:16:32 GMT
The CDC is tracking a possible endemic ** of Leprosy (aka Hansen's disease") in Central Florida which is pretty weird in that it is very difficult to catch Hansen's disease and most people are, thank heavens, resistant to it and the spike in cases is unrelated to traditional risk factors....ie international travel. Now the number of REPORTED cases are a mere 16 since the first of the year. However that's 11 more than reported last year.
The article was written it seems because this cluster is unusual. Among possible sources are getting up close and personal with a nine banded armadillo or with infected people from other countries who arrive with it. I'm gonna blame it on all those snowbirds flocking to no income tax Florida to retire in the Central Florida heat. .....but who knows?
Which brings to mind a little song Dad used to sing to me in the cradle:
Leprosy, see what you've done to me.
There goes my eyeball, into my highball.
Kiss me quick, there goes my upper lip.
There goes my fingernail, into my ginger ale.***
** means regularly occurring in a particular region. Nationwide about 150-250 cases are REPORTED annually.
*** If you were traumatized, as I was, by the leper scenes in Ben Hur or the novel Hawaii, you may have a histrionic view of the disease which affects the skin and nervous system and can result in paralysis of the hands and feet and paralysis--- if untreated.
The article was written it seems because this cluster is unusual. Among possible sources are getting up close and personal with a nine banded armadillo or with infected people from other countries who arrive with it. I'm gonna blame it on all those snowbirds flocking to no income tax Florida to retire in the Central Florida heat. .....but who knows?
Which brings to mind a little song Dad used to sing to me in the cradle:
Leprosy, see what you've done to me.
There goes my eyeball, into my highball.
Kiss me quick, there goes my upper lip.
There goes my fingernail, into my ginger ale.***
** means regularly occurring in a particular region. Nationwide about 150-250 cases are REPORTED annually.
*** If you were traumatized, as I was, by the leper scenes in Ben Hur or the novel Hawaii, you may have a histrionic view of the disease which affects the skin and nervous system and can result in paralysis of the hands and feet and paralysis--- if untreated.