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Leprosy outbreak causes concerns in Northwest Arkansas
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by nukegingrich | February 8, 2008 at 03:33 pm
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SPRINGDALE - The medical community is warning the public: a leprosy outbreak in Springdale could blossom into an epidemic, if something isn't done soon.Doctors say at least nine cases of leprosy have been confirmed in Springdale. Local doctors say they would be shocked by even one case of leprosy in their entire career, so they say something must be done soon, in order to stop leprosy's spread.
Springdale MD Jennifer Bingham says, "my initial response was: I am shocked. I am shocked we are seeing this. It's a true reason to be very worried."
Medical specialists say the Marshall Islands have the most cases of leprosy, in the world. And the city with the largest number of Marshallese people, outside the Marshall islands, is Springdale. And Bingham says, it makes sense, then, that leprosy is spreading to the city. "It's from the Marshall islands; that's why we're seeing it.
This could get out of hand very quickly.
Springdale, Arkansas is also reporting over 100 cases of TB.
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at 16:13 on February 8th, 2008
Thanks for getting this up nukegingrich.
at 16:18 on February 8th, 2008
thanks RP
at 07:46 on February 9th, 2008
The most common form of Hansen's Disease/Leprosy causes nerve damage, so that the body does not register pain, and therefore does not fight infection or injury. Since Hansen's Disease is (fortunately) really hard to transmit, lots of people don't realise that the illness still exists, much less in North America. However, incidence of Leprosy in the US is growing (albeit very slowly), though actual numbers are hard to pin down since it's underreported. More here from the CDC.
at 00:44 on July 15th, 2008
The leprosy is epidemic all over the United States and the world, we send our soldiers to duty stations that are rampant with this disease. Since our involvement with foreign wars coupled with the sexual revolution we have been subjected to this PLAGUE. If you watch TV you will see all the drugs they develope for the symptoms, HUMIRA being one drug, it is for arthritis, exzema, ankylosing spondylitis and crohns disease. Now if you take a look at the symptoms it causes you will see it is afflicting the Leprocy to adapt, to change its form, it can actually morph into TB within people that have been tested negative for TB. It is a killer Parkinsons disease is related to this, so is carrple tunnel, CARRPLE TUNNEL it makes the nevers in your body swell so large that they press on the nerve, DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WITH CARRPLE TUNNEL, hmmmmmm, work related my ass. Synptoms can be as simple as hair loss, nerve pain, lesions, eye problems, exzema, TB, arthritis, skin sores that will not heal, this is what most of the population will experience, others the unlucky, especially those born with it will have all kins of malady. it seems to me people do not care unless it may hamper their lives or disfigure them!!! It is at plague, epidemic proportions already!!!! Get with it doctors.
at 18:37 on January 29th, 2009
I'm not surprised at all. Being from the area, it has been long known that one of the last leprosy survivors in the US lived in Fayetteville (city that is connected to Springdale). I didn't know that they had the largest Marshallese population in the US. I should've known that since one neighborhood I lived in had about 10 families in a 3 block radius all from the Marshall Islands.