{"id":170290,"date":"2023-08-23T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/leprosy-appears-to-be-on-the-rise-in-florida"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:25:15","slug":"leprosy-appears-to-be-on-the-rise-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/leprosy-appears-to-be-on-the-rise-in-florida","title":{"rendered":"Leprosy Appears to Be on The Rise in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leprosy-appears-to-be-on-the-rise-in-florida2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A 54-year-old Florida man diagnosed with leprosy adds to a growing number of cases detected in the south-eastern United States, which appears to be a new hotspot for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>It follows <a href=\"https:\/\/emergency.cdc.gov\/han\/2023\/han00494.asp\">recent alerts<\/a> from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the first cases of locally-acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/malaria\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">malaria<\/a> in the US in two decades; four of which were in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Leprosy incidence, or rates of new leprosy cases, has been increasing in southern parts of the US since 2000, with reported cases more than doubling in south-eastern states over the past decade. Central Florida now accounts for almost one-fifth of US cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o!! A 54-year-old Florida man diagnosed with leprosy adds to a growing number of cases detected in the south-eastern United States, which appears to be a new hotspot for the disease. It follows recent alerts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the first cases of locally-acquired malaria in the US [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}