{"id":13120,"date":"2019-08-25T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2019-08-25T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:15:32","slug":"new-report-shows-leprosy-on-the-rise-in-los-angeles-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/new-report-shows-leprosy-on-the-rise-in-los-angeles-county\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Shows Leprosy on the Rise in Los Angeles County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-25-New-Report-Shows-Leprosy-on-the-Rise-in-Los-Angeles-County.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-25-New-Report-Shows-Leprosy-on-the-Rise-in-Los-Angeles-County.png 900w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-25-New-Report-Shows-Leprosy-on-the-Rise-in-Los-Angeles-County-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-25-New-Report-Shows-Leprosy-on-the-Rise-in-Los-Angeles-County-768x492.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>GATEWAY PUNDIT<\/strong>, by Jim Hoft, August 18, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>California is not just a public toilet but now there is evidence that leprosy is on the rise in Los Angeles County.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Barack Obama <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2016\/02\/obama-changes-law-allows-immigrants-with-blistering-stds-and-leprosy-into-us\/\"><em>changed US law in 2016 <\/em><\/a><em>and allowed immigrants with blistering STDs and leprosy to migrate to the US.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1K9zuhu4RTa17x6KHlP-B7ojFhsahgmXK\/view\"><em>Medscape<\/em><\/a><em> reported:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Leprosy, also known as Hansen\u2019s disease, is rarely seen \nin the United States, but cases continue to emerge in Los Angeles \nCounty, a new report says.<\/p><p>\u201cHansen\u2019s disease still exists, and we need to educate medical \nstudents and physicians,\u201d coauthor Dr. Maria Teresa Ochoa from Keck \nMedical Center of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, \ntold Reuters Health by email.<\/p><p>Dr. Ochoa and colleagues identified 187 patients with the disease in a\n review of medical records from their leprosy clinic spanning 1973 to \n2018. Most patients were Latino, originating from Mexico, and they \nexperienced a median delay in diagnosis of more than three years, the \nteam reports JAMA Dermatology, online August 7.<\/p><p>Multibacillary leprosy (MB) cases outnumbered paucibacillary leprosy \n(PB) cases by nearly eight to one (88.6% vs. 11.4%, respectively), and \nLatino patients were more likely than non-Latino patients to have MB, as\n were patients from Central or South America (versus other regions).<\/p><cite>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2019\/08\/new-report-shows-leprosy-on-the-rise-in-los-angeles-county\/\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2019\/08\/new-report-shows-leprosy-on-the-rise-in-los-angeles-county\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft, August 18, 2019 Excerpt: California is not just a public toilet but now there is evidence that leprosy is on the rise in Los Angeles County. Barack Obama changed US law in 2016 and allowed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/new-report-shows-leprosy-on-the-rise-in-los-angeles-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13122,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions\/13122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}