leprosyThe article focuses on the increasing prevalence of leprosy (Hansen disease) in Florida, particularly among individuals lacking typical risk factors, as reported in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal Emerging Infectious Diseases....
In recent weeks, you may have seen alarming headlines about howleprosy might become “endemic” in Florida. As a physician in Florida who specializes in treating leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, this case report was not “news” to us in the field: We have known for some time a...
The warning comes because of whathealth officialslearned when examining patients diagnosed with leprosy. "Whereas leprosy in the United States previously affected persons who had immigrated from leprosy-endemic areas, about 34% of new case-patients during 2015–2020 appeared to have locally acquired th...
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FLORIDAHANSEN'S diseaseCONTACT tracingFlorida, USA, has witnessed an increased incidence of leprosy cases lacking traditional risk factors. Those trends, in addition to decreasing diagnoses in foreign -born persons, contribute to rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southea...