leprosy cases faster - if it’s caught early, several years of antibiotics can purge the bacterium from your system before nerve damage occurs. The researchers hope, though, that this confirmation will help doctors diagnose U.S. But as long as you don’t mess with the critters, you’ll be fine. Less armadillo on the menu, for starters. How’d they get it? It’s not clear how, but the when is fairly cut and dried: leprosy originated in the Old World, while armadillos exist only in the New World, which means they must have contracted it in the last 400–500 years since European settlement of the Americas began.Īrmadillos are not alone in carrying diseases dangerous to humans: in addition to birds and pigs that carry flu, many of the chipmunks and rabbits in the western U.S. Armadillos, which have a low body temperature for mammals (89° F), are at just the right temperature. leprae is a delicate bacterium and prefers cooler environs, setting up camp in humans mainly in extremities, under fingernails and such. Now, publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists have sequenced the genome of a rare leprosy strain found in a Texas armadillo, compared with the strains in human patients, and found them to be the same - very good proof that the disease is passing back and forth between these species. But it was hard to prove as long as both humans and armadillos were carrying fairly generic, readily available strains of the bacteria - strains that could have come from anywhere. leprae can stand to live - and scientists suspected that these anomalous cases were due to contact with the little armored tootsie rolls. Many of them lived in the southern U.S., where armadillos roam and are occasionally eaten for meat.Īrmadillos are known to carry leprosy - in fact, they are the only wild animals other than humans upon which the picky M. But a third of the patients had never traveled to locales with a history of leprosy. Two-thirds of the patients turned out to have contracted the disease abroad in places like Africa, the Philippines and Brazil, where it’s not uncommon. How the Heck:Ībout 150–250 cases of leprosy, which is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae and results in nerve damage if not treated early, are diagnosed in the U.S. You can watch them from a distance, even take pictures, but don’t play with or eat Texas’s state mammal: Scientists have just confirmed that it is a source of leprosy infections in humans. If weather conditions are too severe to ship, we will notify you and arrange a future shipping date.Please back away from the armadillo, ma’am. Depending on weather conditions, we may include an ice pack or heat pack at no charge for the safety of the animals. All reptile orders are shipped in a styro-foam lined cardboard box used specifically for shipping reptiles. We pack your reptiles in the safest, most efficient way possible. SOMEONE MUST BE PRESENT TO SIGN FOR THE PACKAGE or our Live arrival guarantee is VOID. Please email us at to let us know what day works for you. You may request an alternate shipping day.
Reptile orders placed after 2pm, get shipped the following day.Įx: If you place your order at 5pm Monday, we will ship tuesday, and you will receive Wed. Reptile orders placed before 2pm usually get shipped the same day. We also offer HOLD FOR PICKUP at your closest FedEx center, so you can pick the package up after work/school. If you live in a smaller town, or in a rural area it may arrive between 12-4pm. 4" in length.Īll our reptiles come with a Live Arrival Guarantee. The Armadillo Lizards for sale are adults, and aprox. They originate from Tanzania, and have neat armor plating! They like drier enviroments, and eat a variety of insects. Snakes at Sunset has awesome Armadillo Lizards for sale that are field collected. Armadillo Lizards - Cordylus tropidosternum
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