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Strange News: 'Death Cap' Mushroom Poisoning, Criminal Bear Apprehended, Mysterious Leprosy Outbreak in Florida

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Slow Game of Leprosy

Leprosy is a slow game. It can take up to 20 years for you as a leprosy patient to develop symptoms, to get the rashes, the ulcers, the legions,. all the nasty stuff like the weird numb blotches on your skin. So this means, especially given the age of the patient who triggered a lot of this reporting, shout out to science alert Claire Watson August 2nd, 2023. This means that this guy who is 54 years old in Florida, we don't know how long he had this until he went in to get diagnosed. You can incubate this stuff, which means that logically speaking, it is quite possible that there's a

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