Transmission | Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) | CDC.
the southern United States, some armadillos are naturally infected with the bacteria that cause Hansen’s disease in people and it may be possible that they can spread it to people. However, the risk is very low and most people who come into contact with armadillos are unlikely to get Hansen’s disease.
Armadillos have lower body temps, more suited to the bacteria that causes Hansen’s. It’s actually pretty fascinating, if gory, study.
I did not know this until today. Not that I’m in the habit of handling armadillos
not just god, but no written vowels at all.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3087993/jewish/Why-No-Vowels-in-the-Torah.htm
even nowadays the overwhelming majority of Hebrew literature is written without vowels.
florida definitely doesn’t deserve smiting tho. only some small portion of its residents
eta: and of course that’d be yhwh, יהוה
[dances around, chants Jehova, ducks incoming stones]
Also a thing with anyone who can pull off “That’s m’ name, don’t wear it out,” with thanks.
Well, until you meet like 9 people deadpanning ‘Muumuu and Shandal Mnookin,’ ‘Crabbraid and Pinesoldiye Leifkitz’ etc.
In my youth (~40 years ago) I saw a lot of affected young people, as a friend of mine lived close to a Don Orione (IIRC) center.
Some barely older than me, probably the last ones to be hit. Sometimes going out in groups, a crutch and wheelchair army. Heart wrenching.
I have a profound disrespect for no-vaxxers, this is only one of the reasons.
I have seen the fallout from vaccine preventable diseases firsthand, repeatedly, in a PTSD inducing fashion, through my career. Watching kids die of pertussis, meningococcal meningitis, seeing the crippling effects of polio in Honduras, losing a friend to cervical cancer… Yeah, “disrespect” is way too gentle a word for my attitude toward virulent antivaxxers.
Being anti-vax is the most mind-numbingly stupid positions that I can imagine taking. Vaccines are one of the few truly unambiguous wins in public health, up there with hygiene and water fluoridation. Everything has side effects and the occasional negative outcome, of course, but the risk/benefit ratio of vaccines is off the charts good. That people can be opposed to that hurts my brain so so much.
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