Authored by Jennie Taer via SaraACarter.com,
Leprosy cases are emerging in Los Angeles County, according to a recent study revealed in a Reuters Health report and its co-author Dr. Maria Teresa Ochoa of Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles told Reuters Health that she’s urging the public to “fight the stigma.”
The disease commonly referred to as “Hansen’s Disease” is curable when treated expeditiously, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Scientists believe it is spread through particles in the air, but also say contact must be “prolonged” and “close.”
An infected person can suffer mild to severe damage to the body’s “skin, nerves, and mucous membranes.”
Moreover, patients can lose feeling in parts of their bodies and suffer permanent blindness.
Dr. Victor S. Santos, who works with a team of researchers at the Federal University of Alagoas, in Arapiraca, Brazil, told Reuters,
“As leprosy has been a neglected disease with a high potential to cause deformities, especially when it is not treated properly, I would like to reinforce the need for early identification of cases in the community with the adoption of active case search and screening of household and social contacts from all index cases,” he said.
“Such measures could minimize leprosy-related problems, as physicians and other health professionals could better care for these patients.”
Dr. Ochoa and her team studied 187 infected patients between 1973 and 2018. The report found, according to Reuters Health, that 16 percent of patients suffered “loss of protective sensation” while 26.2 percent of patients had a “visible deformity.” The problem is that cases go undiagnosed and patients aren’t symptomatic for an average of five years, according to the World Health Organization.
According to the CDC, patients with early diagnoses adhering to a combination of 2 or 3 antibiotics make full recoveries.
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Burn baby Burn….disco inferno…..The Angelenos made their bed and now they can lie in it……I lived in Santa Monica and in Corona Del Mar (Orange County) both wonderful environments except the libturds…..I got out before it got bad but I could see the logical conclusion. A shit alert map with so many alerts that the entire map was turd brown (San Fran Sicko)…..
This is what the left wants for all of us…government-dependent slaves existing at the margins of survival. Easy to control the sick, weak, penniless and unarmed peasantry.
Fuck You…..It was all so predictable and so sad to be right and couldn’t do a damn thing about it….Cassandra!
Typhus, now leprosy.
Import the Third World, become the Third World.
LA now:
LA in 2040:
Great…an old fashioned Biblical plague!
It already is a sociological leprosy colony in my book.
They wanted it; they got it; let them choke on it.
Q: Heard about the leper hockey game? No?
A: There was a face off at center ice.
Q: Did you see that leper poker player?
A: Yes. He kept throwing his hand in.
Q: What do you call five lepers in a hot tub?
A: Soup.
Yeah Jim, but apparently certain readers think Southerners are the banjo playing wastes of flesh (no pun intended). Every now and again I feel guilty for begging for the Big One and the rest of the country refusing to pay for the fallout. The guilt moves on in about a microsecond. It’d be nice if God gave us a heads up like He did to Lot so that we can march the Californication expats back to the Sphincter in Sacramento (SiS).
(Does that make Californians SiSsies???)
Leprosy can be cured but it costs an arm and a leg.
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A fellow name Bea had leprosy and his back was filled with sores full of pus. He hardly ever went out in public. But, one day he decided to go to a baseball game.
Bea was enjoying himself but soon after the game started a woman two rows back threw up. Bea turned around and said “ma’am I’m so sorry I’ll leave if I’m bothering you” but the woman insisted “no it’s not you” so much that he decided to stay. Just ten minutes later she threw up again. “Ma’am I’m so sorry it’s definitely me I’ll leave now.” But after repeatedly insisting that it wasn’t his fault she convinced him to stay. Twenty minutes later though she threw up again. “That’s it this is the last straw I’m leaving right now this time” Bea exclaimed. “No i keep telling you it’s not you,” the woman assured him. “It’s the man behind you who keeps dipping his nachos in your back.”
When we turned away from Darwinian theory that not everybody makes it, and embraced the feminine doctrine of “compassion” that we’re obligated to see to it that everybody makes it, we signed our own death warrant Mark my words. Plague and pestilence are the consequence. And they’re coming.
Completely agree.
Open borders contribute to the spread of disease. Leprosy is contagious and the infected person can have no symptoms for decades. It’s nasty but not that troubling, far more troubling are the ‘diseases of filth’ which arise from living in filthy and foul environments. The photo of the garbage on the streets is a perfect example of a breeding ground for those diseases. That these diseases are making a come back says volumes about the liberal run cities.
The filth diseases included infections of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts—diarrhea and dysentery, typhoid, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, and tuberculosis—and skin diseases such as scabies and ringworm. Conditions associated with verminous bedding and clothing, such as louse-borne typhus, also turned out to be filth diseases although they may have not been identified as such at the time. Bubonic plague, long associated with rat-infested dwellings, was another filth disease, though fortunately its visitations were uncommon. One of the goals of nineteenth-century public health reformers was the eradication of filth diseases, which meant improving the housing and living conditions of working people. This in turn depended on better wages and working conditions, so social and economic reform were inseparable from public health reform.