[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Fri Apr 12 09:52:39 CDT 2002


On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 01:47 AM, Eric Dittman wrote:

>
> Don't handle them.  Armadillos and humans are the only species
> known to contract Hansen's Disease (Mycobacterium leprae).  They
> caught it from people originally and now carry it in the wild.
> While Hansen's Disease isn't easy to catch, and can be treated
> with antibiotics, why take a chance?  You don't want to find
> out you have contracted the disease after something falls off.
>
I can't resist :-)

Would that make you want to MMMBop the dillos?

course sp is differnt.

Andrew



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