Leprosy Cases Rising in 2023

What do they know that they didn't share with us?

We have just been told that there is a steady rise of new leprosy cases in the USA, especially in central Florida, in 2023. “As leprosy cases rise in Florida, what you must know about the infectious disease” (Fox News, 2023.08.07):

New cases of 'misunderstood illness' have been slowly rising in US, particularly in central Florida.

In 2020, 159 cases were reported in the U.S., with 81% of the new cases reported in central Florida, according to the National Hansen’s Disease Program.

Slowly rising to 159? Yet, the US Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) reports these leprosy numbers in years 1985-2015:

The years 2009-2015 all saw higher case numbers:

And the cases were significantly higher in the 1980s. So why the alarm bells? Unless the numbers for 2021-2023, yet to be published, would surprise to the upside. So, why not share them? It seems like we need to be “accustomed” first?

The site Futurism.com comes up with a “positive” spin on Aug. 3, 2023: “Very Normal! Leprosy Cases Surging in Florida, Government Says”:

Though the scope is limited — there were a decidedly medium-numbered 159 cases reported in the United States in 2020 — the CDC warns that leprosy, also called Hansen's disease, is on the uptick overall.

But the CDC says incidences have more than doubled in southeastern America over the past decade, with Central Florida becoming a particular flashpoint: the region lays claim to 81 percent of cases throughout the state and nearly one fifth of all reported leprosy cases across the country.

From all we knew about the disease up till now, “leprosy requires prolonged contact with someone who is infected”:

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, can spread from person to person, but it requires prolonged contact with someone who is infected.

“This is not something you get from shaking hands,” said Anne W. Rimoin, PhD, MPH, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health.

Most leprosy cases in the US have been in people who recently traveled outside the country where leprosy cases are more common, or those who had direct contact with nine-banded armadillos, animals that are known carriers of the disease.

Yet, the CDC just reported of a Florida man with a year 2022 leprosy diagnosis:

that defies this notion of a prerequisite prolonged contact with someone with leprosy, to acquire one:

The CDC included the Florida man's case in the report because it's emblematic of leprosy's now-endemic status in the state. The man had complained to his doctor about a painful rash and lesions, but hadn't traveled, hadn't been contact with armadillos or immigrants from countries with widespread leprosy, nor had he hung out with someone recently who had the disease.

So, what has happened?! The experts a baffled, as usual.

One thing for sure, it’s not due to Covid vaccinations - an AP fact check guarantees that! “Florida leprosy cases highlighted in recent report aren’t linked to COVID-19 vaccines” (AP, 2023.08.11):

CLAIM: There is a connection between leprosy cases in Florida cited in a new report and the COVID-19 vaccines.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The report being referenced, published in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal, relied on data about leprosy cases that predated the COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccines can’t give people leprosy, a bacterial infection formally known as Hansen’s disease. Some researchers have explored whether the vaccines could prompt an immune response that causes complications or prompts the disease to surface in people already infected, though even that association isn’t clear.

According to the AP’s fact check, then, the 2022-diagnosed case predates the COVID-19 vaccines. How do we fact check that?

Also, we know for a fact that vaccines can’t give people shingles either, or myocarditis, or sudden death — at most some headache or slight fever for a day. Right, AP?

P.S. Guy Duperreault comments:

LOL! If it wasn't so funny it would be maybe hilarious. Jeff Childers did a good job of looking at this, and includes an 'actual' real (valid?) medical study that links ... the unmentionable to the disease. Nice coverage. And he references Peggy Hall's video – with another medical study that links Voldemort with Hansen's – that is wonderfully funny, and even looks at the maybe reason why a Florida county has been singled out - nothing to do with an organisation with which DeSantis hangs calling for the state to stop and look, wonder what's going down.

☕️ HANSEN’S PSYOP ☙ Saturday, August 5, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Corporate media exploded with news of a leprosy outbreak in Florida. But doctors are baffled. I'll give you one guess what connection I found. And tough talk from the Chinese about our recent record.

☕️ HANSEN’S PSYOP ☙ Saturday, August 5, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

JEFF CHILDERS https://substack.com/@coffeeandcovid (5 AUG 2023)

COVID-19 vaccination and leprosy–A UK hospital-based retrospective cohort study

https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0011493

The Healthy American Peggy Hall on the leprosy media fear mongering blitz

REAL Cause of LEPROSY OUTBREAK in Florida?

https://www.youtube.com/live/i0ysqmtWe4Q

NIH Study linking injections with leprosy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8610845