"Olivers" > wrote in message
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>
> In the US rural South, primarilty among the very poor and mostly African
> American, cooked with sweet taters, greasy, somewhat porkish in color,
> unappealing, not near as good as Hoover Hog (armadillo) which comes in its
> own baking dish, but carries the Hansen's virus, enough to make you throw
> in your hand while playing bridge - no, not the cards, the hand, Hansen's
> being Leprosy (curable by today's antibiotics from the Streptomycin line,
> IIRC).


If Hansen's is a virus, how can it be effectively treated with antibiotics?


Karl
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