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Leprosy Is Spreading in Florida

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by citygator, Mar 22, 2024.

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  1. Mar 22, 2024 #1
    citygator

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    Well that would make a great slogan. Leprosy is on the rise and Florida is a hot spot with 20% of all cases. However, rest easily knowing Desantis is addressing meat alternatives with legislation.

    Leprosy is spreading in Florida

    According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year, there were 159 new cases of leprosy in the U.S. in 2020, around a fifth of which were in Florida. Of the Florida cases, 81 percent were found in central Florida.

    "Florida reported 10 cases of leprosy every year between 2002 and 2014. This rose to 29 new cases in 2015. There were 15 new cases in 2023," Francisca Mutapi, a professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity and co-director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh, told Newsweek.

    "We currently do not know what is driving the reported increase of leprosy cases in Florida. Studies are currently underway to determine how infections are being transmitted, i.e., between humans vs infections from animals to humans. People may become infected from other people with untreated leprosy or from the nine-banded armadillo, a natural host of the bacteria causing the disease," Mutapi said.
     
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  2. Mar 22, 2024 #2
    wgbgator

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    That's one way to make the state more Biblical
     
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  3. Mar 22, 2024 #3
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  4. Mar 22, 2024 #4
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    Time for mail in voting for all in Florida in November.
     
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  5. Mar 22, 2024 #5
    StrangeGator

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    Kind of a metaphor for the state of things in the state of Florida.
     
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  6. Mar 22, 2024 #6
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    Not worried I had my vaccine.
     
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  7. Mar 22, 2024 #7
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    so it’s another maga conspiracy?
     
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  8. Mar 22, 2024 #8
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  9. Mar 22, 2024 #9
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  10. Mar 22, 2024 #10
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    Well Florida's surgeon general practices medieval medicine so makes sense that there'd be an increase in medieval diseases.
     
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  11. Mar 22, 2024 #11
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    Can leprosy be cured with leeches?
     
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  12. Mar 22, 2024 #12
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    Lol, it was a joke.
     
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  14. Mar 22, 2024 #14
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    I can see it now a leper colony at Mar A Lago…
     
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  15. Mar 23, 2024 #15
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    No, leprosy is caused by demon possession, not by toxic humours in the blood. Call an exorcist.
     
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    You gotta beef with chicken?
     
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    Let’s get the demon semen doctor on the case. She did work for the same grifting sham that Ladapo did, after all. I hear they’re tight.
     
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  18. Mar 23, 2024 #18
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    Well, this is Florida we are talking about.
     
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    I have shot a lot of them because they dig up the garden and grass. I don't clean or eat them and don't plan to start. The buzzards clean them up pretty fast though.
     
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