Rise in U.S. Leprosy Cases Due to ‘International Migration’ Amid Southern Border Crisis: CDC – American Faith

…The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has updated its list of diseases with “public health significance” to include leprosy, in addition to Gonorrhea, Syphilis and Tuberculosis, according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). On Saturday, Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, a border state, renewed his state’s disaster proclamation due to the “surge of individuals unlawfully crossing the Texas–Mexico border” who pose “an ongoing and imminent threat of disaster for a number of Texas counties and for all state agencies affected by this disaster.”