Health officials are seeing more cases of the rare disease of leprosy in Florida, and want to find out why. Florida researchers are weighing in with some clues.
By Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Knowing you have leprosy and getting treated early is crucial. However, it could take about five years after contracting the disease to show symptoms, such as patches of pink skin that become numb, lumps on your face or earlobes, and numbness in your hands and feet.
Now, the researchers are suggesting leprosy may be a permanent fixture in Florida and locally acquired. Miami doctors who treat the disease agree.No one knows for certain why and how leprosy is spreading in Florida. One way scientists think someone can get leprosy is via droplets from an infected person’s coughs or sneezes during a prolonged period of close contact. Another method is contact with nine-banded armadillos, some of which are naturally infected by leprosy-causing bacteria.
“Could it be in the soil in Central Florida? We don’t know,” Dunn said. “It is one of the interesting factors to consider in the thought process. We are hoping the scientific community leans into our report.”
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