US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) flagged the surging cases of Leprosy in the Florida state. The development came as a new reports suggested that Florida’s central area may have become an “endemic location” for the infectious disease.
As many as 159 new cases of Leprosy were detected in the United States in 2020, overlapping with the time when Covid became a pandemic and wreaked havoc in and beyond the United States. Florida reportedly topped the chart as state with most Leprosy cases. Nearly a fifth of all Leprosy cases in Florida were reported in the state’s central region.
Elsewhere, in the south-eastern side of the United States, the number of Leprosy cases have more than doubled over the last decade, according to the CDC.
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“Whereas leprosy in the United States previously affected persons who had immigrated from leprosy-endemic areas, (about) 34 per cent of new case patients during 2015–20 appeared to have locally acquired the disease,” the CDC said.
The US CDC said that the data showed in its report, adds up to the “mounting epidemiological evidence supporting leprosy as an endemic in the south-eastern United States”.
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