-Caveat Lector-
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Aleisha Saba wrote:
>So from where does this Leprosy originate? Asia, Africa and Japan
>today wants to remove the "stigma" of being a Leper?
If you weren't such an idiot, you'd get a reliable medical reference and
find out.
You'd perhaps find that it is indigenous to ALL areas, including the U.S.
And that it's found in the soil.
>Soon will we be told to embrace a Leper as we would a homosexual or
>lesbian and welcome them into our boy scouts, and Churches and swimming
>pools?
Keep on posting, Saba, and keep proving what an ignoramus you are.
>Now maybe I seem heartless in this matter,
No more so than you've amply demonstrated in other matters...that yes,
you are indeed heartless, selfish, uncaring and stupid...
>but it is just that I
>consider a homosexual and a leper more dangerous than a loaded gun.
Only because you're stupid, especially regarding how one contracts
leprosy...
If you want to equate catching leprosy to a firearm, then its danger
would be equivalent to taking a bullet between your thumb and forefinger
and continually banging it against your skull.
Leprosy is NOT easily contracted, and takes prolonged contact with the
pathogen...
>Now the bible has certain rules for lepers too;
It also has certain rules for menstruating women, and for men who have
had nocturnal emissions of semen...but you don't see such 'rules'
enforced as public policy.
>But the trend is to take stigma away from Leprosy......are they kidding?
No. Why SHOULD their be a stigma to it?
>Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is endemic to Texas, Louisiana
>and Hawaii
Do you even KNOW what 'endemic' means, Saba?
>"Even today, there's not a lot known about leprosy. We know it's caused
>by a bacterium, but the organisms have never been cultured.
BACTERIA, Saba...not a virus. Do you have even a CLUE as to what that
means, vis-a-vis transmission/contraction?
>They grow only in intact animals," Rea says. "It's also impossible to
>prove what the mode of transmission or what level of exposure is
>required to transmit it."
Actually most studies have shown that one needs fairly prolonged contact
to contract it, and even then some people will never get it...which is
why all those missionaries could work at leper colonies and never
contract the disease themselves. It's also why some people -- especially
certain families -- seem more susceptible in places where leprosy is
endemic; some people are just more immune to the bacteria than others.
>The disease typically strikes people in their 30s living in areas where
>leprosy is endemic.
There's that word again, Saba....'endemic'...look it up.
>Some people are naturally resistant to the illness and their bodies can
>destroy the infection without medical assistance.
Just as I mentioned previously...
>For those with no
>resistance, the illness ravages the skin and nerves and can cause
>crippling lesions and deformities. Most people, however, fall in the
>middle of the spectrum, where treatment with antibiotics not only can
>arrest the disease, but may cure it.
And it's a very slow progressing disease, so most people who are
diagnosed with it at it's inception can be treated and cured with little
or no signs that they ever had the disease...definitely before it
progresses to the stage of nerve damage or permanent scars...
>Rea says that even though the disease is treatable, the stigma attached
>to it remains.
As Saba's ignorant posts attest to...
>Levan emphasized that the disease is difficult to transmit and that
>patients need not avoid contact with others.
Obviously Saba missed this paragraph....
June
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