{"id":184719,"date":"2024-03-09T03:07:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T09:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/leprosy-may-now-be-endemic-in-florida-report-suggests"},"modified":"2024-03-09T03:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T09:07:49","slug":"leprosy-may-now-be-endemic-in-florida-report-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/leprosy-may-now-be-endemic-in-florida-report-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Leprosy may now be endemic in Florida, report suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leprosy-may-now-be-endemic-in-florida-report-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cases of leprosy have increased in Florida and the southeastern United States over the last decade, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/29\/8\/22-0367_article\" target=\"_blank\">n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/29\/8\/22-0367_article\" target=\"_blank\">e<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/29\/8\/22-0367_article\" target=\"_blank\">w re<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/29\/8\/22-0367_article\" target=\"_blank\">port<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leprosy, officially called Hansen\u2019s disease, is a rare type of bacterial infection that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/leprosy\/about\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">attacks the nerves<\/a> and can cause swelling under the skin. The new research paper, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/29\/8\/22-0367_article#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20National%20Hansen%E2%80%99s%20Disease%20Program%2C%20159,almost%20one%20fifth%20of%20nationally%20reported%20cases%20%283%29\" target=\"_blank\">Emerging Infectious Diseases journal<\/a>, found that reported cases doubled in the Southeast over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Central Florida in particular has seen a disproportionate share of cases, which indicates it might be an endemic location for the disease, meaning leprosy has a consistent presence in the region\u2019s population rather than popping up in the form of one-off outbreaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cases of leprosy have increased in Florida and the southeastern United States over the last decade, according to a new report. Leprosy, officially called Hansen\u2019s disease, is a rare type of bacterial infection that attacks the nerves and can cause swelling under the skin. The new research paper, published in the Centers for Disease Control [\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-184719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184719","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=184719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}