Leprosy – Fearporn, Facts and Fiction

Guest Post by Dr. Robert Malone

Image from WHO website describing leprosy and it’s diagnosis. Credit: Tom Bradley, Child with Leprosy symptoms

My friend and respected colleague Jeff Childers did a nice job summarizing the main-stream and alternate media fear porn surrounding one recent case of leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in Florida. This case was written up and published as a case study by a recently graduated medical student/trainee in a CDC-affiliated medical journal last week. I wanted to just cross post his otherwise excellent Substack article, but… Jeff is one hell of an attorney. However, by his own admission, he is not a physician or a scientist, and he got just some important details wrong regarding the science and medicine. But his calling attention to the ginned up fear porn is super important and for that, I acknowledge his great work.

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Why is leprosy a (sudden) thing in Florida, as GBS is in Peru? And why all these (sudden) cancers in the UK, Belarus, Australia, AND heart problems in Italy, Israel, New Zealand (just to name a few)?

Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller

And yet there’s nothing to see here—especially if you have no eyes, no mind.

On the now-endemic leprosy in Florida

by Amber Parsons 

We have probably all heard by now of the recent spike in leprosy cases diagnosed in Florida.

Leprosy may now be endemic in Florida, report suggests

August 1, 2023

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/leprosy-may-be-endemic-florida-cdc-rcna97567

 

The situation is so dire that they are claiming that it might now even be endemic to the state. This represents a huge change from the days when leprosy could be caught only in distant places, whence it would be brought back to the United States.

Long known as fearsome biblical illness, leprosy, we now know, is caused by a chronic bacterial infection. According to the WHO:

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease which is caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae. The disease affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosa of the upper respiratory tract, and the eyes. The disease is transmitted through droplets from the nose and mouth. Prolonged, close contact over months with someone with untreated leprosy is needed to catch the disease. The disease is not spread through casual contact with a person who has leprosy like shaking hands or hugging, sharing meals or sitting next to each other. Moreover, the patient stops transmitting the disease when they begin treatment.

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Leprosy Could Be The Next Public Health Crisis To Hit Los Angeles

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).

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