Seems that "we have had leprosy in Arkansas since forever. Some people get the idea that leprosy just came with the Marshallese. That’s not true," according to Dr. James R. Phillips, the Arkansas Department of Health’s branch chief of infectious diseases.
Rico says durn, isn't that special... The fact that an estimated 6,000-8,000 immigrants from the Marshall Islands, a leprosy leader, live in Springdale, Arkansas doesn't have anything to do with it, of course.
21 February 2008
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