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Dr. Danielle Devereaux directs Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center’s Pediatric Emergency Department. She says testing to identify which virus may be causing a severe respiratory infection doesn’t usually impact treatment, “except when there is an underlying medical condition such as prematurity, congenital heart disease, chronic lung disease, sickle cell, or any condition that compromises the immune system.”
FS Productions/Getty Images(FLORIDA) Cases of leprosy are rising in Florida, according to a new analysis published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal.
Although the disease is still rare in the U.S. with just 159 cases reported in 2020 a study released Monday from the EID and shared by the CDC found that Central Florida accounts for a bulk of those cases.
Central Florida appears to have the highest concentration of cases in the Sunshine State, with the region accounting for nearly one-fifth of reported cases in the U.S.
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is a lingering infectious disease caused by the acid-fast rod Mycobacterium leprae. The disease mostly impacts the skin and the peripheral nervous system, according to the EID. Today, the disease is curable with antibiotics.
"Leprosy has been historically uncommon in the United States; incidence peaked around 1983, and a drastic reduction in the annual n
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