Cases of leprosy on the rise in Florida: CDC

[Jason]

 

Cases of leprosy on the rise in Florida: CDC - ABC News

ABCNEWS.GO.COM

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Cases of leprosy in Florida are surging and are becoming endemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

[Mr.Vic20]

T-minus 10 seconds to Desantis retitling Leprosy as "Immigrant's Disease"

[skillzdadirecta]

Damn, Florida...

[silentbob]

Waiting for the first Republican to blame this on the vaccines for Covid. Can’t wait to see who claims to be Jesus in curing people of it

 

 

[CitizenVectron]

Maybe it will cause Florida to fall off of the US...

[Brian]

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In recent decades, cases have been from travelers coming to the U.S. Now, researchers are pointing out that roughly one-third of cases from 2015 to 2020 appear to have been acquired locally, suggesting the disease is being transmitted in the U.S., either from person-to-person or from contact with animals like armadillos.

people fucking armadillos now? @SaysWho?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

2 minutes ago, Brian said:

people fucking armadillos now? @SaysWho?

 

In looking further, it can be spread through the consumption of armadillo meat (cases in Brazil) or being exposed to armadillo feces through gardening (a US case).

[Brick]

So I shouldn't plan a trip to Disney World anytime soon? 

[Uaarkson]

6 minutes ago, Brick said:

So I shouldn't plan a trip to Disney World anytime soon? 

Between all the leprosy and the meth, Disney World is going to start resembling The Walking Dead.

[BloodyHell]

10 hours ago, Brick said:

So I shouldn't plan a trip to Disney World anytime soon? 

I mean, while leprosy is an awful disease, the MDT they use for it takes care of it. You’ll be fine. And it’s not like it’s widespread.

[Pikachu]

13 hours ago, Brick said:

So I shouldn't plan a trip to Disney World anytime soon? 

 

Go to Disney Land instead.

[Brick]

1 hour ago, Pikachu said:

 

Go to Disney Land instead.

 

I always heard Land was the lesser of the two parks. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, Brick said:

 

I always heard Land was the lesser of the two parks. 

 

It is, but you won't be contributing tax revenue to DeSanctimonious.

[Brick]

Just now, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

It is, but you won't be contributing tax revenue to DeSanctimonious.

 

I'll be honest that was a worry of mine if I went. 

[TUFKAK]

12 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

It is, but you won't be contributing tax revenue to DeSanctimonious.

This is why I won’t even have a layover in any red states now. I’ll give airlines thousands of more dollars before I give the chuds a dime.

[CitizenVectron]

39 minutes ago, Brick said:

 

I always heard Land was the lesser of the two parks. 

 

37 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

It is, but you won't be contributing tax revenue to DeSanctimonious.

 

And also you're in southern California, which is much nicer than Florida, and closer to other even nicer things.

[Spork3245]

[Firewithin]

25 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

the answer your are looking for is.........FREEDOM!!!  thats whats going on.  if you dont like it go back from where you came from 

[SaysWho?]

Malaria I think might be on its way out. It never really affected many people and I’m not sure there have been new cases since July. Most people barely knew it was around.

It’s weird when I read this stuff because Twitter thinks one thing, and I actually live here, open the window, and 

[TUFKAK]

41 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Malaria I think might be on its way out. It never really affected many people and I’m not sure there have been new cases since July. Most people barely knew it was around.

It’s weird when I read this stuff because Twitter thinks one thing, and I actually live here, open the window, and 

Strong global warning isn’t real because it’s snowing at my house vibes here

[SaysWho?]

36 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Strong global warning isn’t real because it’s snowing at my house vibes here

No, global warming is definitely something we can feel in Florida. But a lot of this other stuff, it ain’t it.

 

literally, a handful of people got malaria for a few weeks. In a few counties. Twitter made it seem like it consumed the state.

[SaysWho?]

Also, if I'm vibing anything with my post, it's this:

 

 

[stepee]

There’s no need to make anything up to show that DeSantis is horrible at government. I always like just hearing the actual realities of situations even when it’s less fun. 

[TUFKAK]

50 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

No, global warming is definitely something we can feel in Florida. But a lot of this other stuff, it ain’t it.

 

literally, a handful of people got malaria for a few weeks. In a few counties. Twitter made it seem like it consumed the state.

And all but one of the national cases are from your fast becoming flyover state lol

 

Ive never had malaria but treated patients who have and it looks miserable. I remember having to go into the haz mat suit because someone traveled through sub Saharan Africa and came to the ER with Ebola symptoms. Shot was malaria.

[SaysWho?]

3 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

And all but one of the national cases are from your fast becoming flyover state lol

 

Ive never had malaria but treated patients who have and it looks miserable. I remember having to go into the haz mat suit because someone traveled through sub Saharan Africa and came to the ER with Ebola symptoms. Shot was malaria.

 

Let's see how many national cases there were.

 

New malaria case in Florida brings national total to 8, the first U.S. acquired cases in 20 years

WWW.NBCNEWS.COM

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All seven of Florida’s cases have been found in Sarasota County. A CDC official said the agency does not expect a nationwide outbreak.

 

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Malaria was considered eliminated from the U.S. by 1951, but the country gets around 2,000 cases annually, nearly all among people who had traveled outside the U.S.

 

Dr. Monica Parise, the director of the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, said malaria outbreaks in the U.S. have historically been “relatively small and contained.” The outbreak in Sarasota County fits the pattern, she said.

 

There weren't many of those national cases, and considering it comes from mosquitos, it's not hard to figure out why it's happening in Florida. It's also rare but not new to Florida. Even this year, it was still rare in Florida.

 

As usual, Twitter/X focuses on the wrong thing. 

[TUFKAK]

Yes I googled that same article 

 

first US acquired cases in 20 years, congrats?

[SaysWho?]

Just now, TUFKAK said:

Yes I googled that same article 

 

first is acquired cases in 20 years, congrats?

 

Apparently you didn't read the article you googled.

[SaysWho?]

I can think of many things DeSantis has done wrong -- LGBTQ issues, black history studies, lack of leadership on rent and property insurance (this is a REALLY big one and actually impacts everyone) -- so being here and experiencing it first-hand, it's disappointing to see even this board focus on Twitter reactions about malaria or anything in that realm. I don't just google articles; we've been actually covering this, and the effects are so small and contained -- per CDC(!) -- that it'd be nice if d1p knew more about the things that really mattered, like how much of a Floridian's income goes toward their monthly housing payments.

 

That will give you all of malaria's symptoms and then some.

[TUFKAK]

8 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

Apparently you didn't read the article you googled.

K

 

[TUFKAK]

Also don’t give a shit about Florida, totally gonna dunk on it though every chance I get though, not everyday a state chooses to become a flyover state after all.

 

prophylactic “k” response too.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

6 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

I can think of many things DeSantis has done wrong -- LGBTQ issues, black history studies, lack of leadership on rent and property insurance (this is a REALLY big one and actually impacts everyone) -- so being here and experiencing it first-hand, it's disappointing to see even this board focus on Twitter reactions about malaria or anything in that realm. I don't just google articles; we've been actually covering this, and the effects are so small and contained -- per CDC(!) -- that it'd be nice if d1p knew more about the things that really mattered, like how much of a Floridian's income goes toward their monthly housing payments.

 

That will give you all of malaria's symptoms and then some.

 

As someone who has the majority of his family in Florida, I'm very much well-aware of those issues -- especially involving the complete and total collapse of the property insurance market and the associated incompetence of DeSantis and his buffoon of a state insurance commissioner in even attempting to address the situation -- and the total irrelevance of these diseases in the greater scheme of things to general life there.

[marioandsonic]

6 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

It's the Plagues of Egypt punishing Woke Disney!

[TUFKAK]

2 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

It's the Plagues of Egypt punishing Woke Disney!

Careful, you’re focusing too much on non important things or something 

[stepee]

I personally don’t think it benefits the left any to intentionally buy into false narratives of their own (when again, there is soooo much actual stuff), but even if it DID, I at least want to know what the actual reality is myself.

 

I’ve definitely seen a lot of steamrolling past truth (“so what, I’m on the right side so it doesn’t matter if it’s true as long as it sounds bad for the other side!”) on resetera, and before when I viewed twitter, and I’m not a huge fan of that way of processing information for myself. But I do understand the frustration that leads to it.

[Spork3245]

35 minutes ago, stepee said:

I personally don’t think it benefits the left any to intentionally buy into false narratives of their own (when again, there is soooo much actual stuff), but even if it DID, I at least want to know what the actual reality is myself.

 

I’ve definitely seen a lot of steamrolling past truth (“so what, I’m on the right side so it doesn’t matter if it’s true as long as it sounds bad for the other side!”) on resetera, and before when I viewed twitter, and I’m not a huge fan of that way of processing information for myself. But I do understand the frustration that leads to it.

Yea, my post wasn’t blaming the Meatball, though, without doing any research, am sure that the Florida CDC is in shambles since he became governor