Welcome to Monday Morning Murder in the News with Alyssa Carroll.

Good morning and happy murder in the news Monday that I'm going to try to release every single Monday

morning because the rest of the regular news is just hot scary garbage and you know you'd

rather be hearing me and my bullshit anyway. I collect news articles along with articles

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Unlike my regular podcast that I write out in its entirety before I record,

this is unscripted, and I don't read the articles past the headline so

you and I can react together. So let's get started. So our first article comes

from ABC News.go.com and the title is

Cases of leprosy on the rise in Florida report says

gee how many Christmas 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 Journal.

Although the disease is still rare in the US, 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 US.

Leprosy known as Hansen's disease is a lingering infectious disease caused by the acid fast rod mycobacterium leprey myso bacterium leprey.

The disease mostly impacts the skin and the peripheral nervous system according to the EID. Today the disease is curable with antibiotics.

Oh, chimic, thank God.

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