NOW, LEPROSY

Jurupa Unified School District in Jurupa Valley, California sent a notice home to parents that two Indian Hills Elementary School students were diagnosed with leprosy. Though the information has not been confirmed, said Superintendent Elliott Duchon, school district officials decided to send the letter home as a precaution. “We wanted parents of the students to know, we wanted to get ahead of any rumors and make sure they had access to ample information,” Duchon said. The letter sent home to parents included information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, which says though leprosy is “feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease, it is well establish that Hansen’s disease (or leprosy) is not highly transmissible, is very treatable, and, with early diagnosis and treatment, is not disabling.” According to WebMD, you can catch it only if you come into close and repeated contact with nose and mouth droplets from someone with untreated leprosy. Ninety-five percent of the world’s population is naturally immune to the disease.
* So don’t go all to pieces.
* Ah, leprosy. An oldie but a goodie.
* The good news: You can only catch it only if you come into close and repeated contact with nose and mouth droplets from someone with untreated leprosy. The bad news: The two diagnosed kids have hay fever.
* Imagine the note to the teacher: “Please excuse Justin from school yesterday. He had leprosy.”
* Q: What did the British parent say when he got a note from the school about students with leprosy?
A: “What’s all this rot?”
* Remember the good old days, when the oddest thing a kid at school could have was a peanut allergy?
* Thank goodness it was leprosy. I was afraid it was the Zika virus.
* Isn’t that the one we’re supposed to be freaked about now?
* How about this life on Planet Earth, huh? It’s a thrill a minute, isn’t it?
* You know who I feel sorry for? Any students who were calling in sick using leprosy as an excuse.
* Just say you have malaria. It’ll work just as well.