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Originally Posted by Boffin
A recent CDC report indicates that a growing body of evidence suggests central Florida may represent an endemic location for leprosy.
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Oh NOOOOO!!! Leprosy! Unclean!! We need colonies now, preferably well offshore!!
Okay. So the panic is out of the way. Let's look at the reality.
First of all, the reports I've read. is that central Florida accounts for 20% of all new reported cases in America. Sounds horrible, but Central Florida has a population of 8,359,609 (Wikipedia), and the total number of cases is a whole 181. Put another way, that is 0.002% of the population. "Minuscule" is the word that comes to mind.
Second, Leprosy is a CURABLE disease. "The currently recommended treatment regimen consists of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine" (World Health Organization).
Don't know about the rest of y'all but based on that, I'm not quite ready to consider moving to (say) Iceland...