{"id":7074,"date":"2011-05-29T04:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T12:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2011-04-28T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T19:42:41","slug":"armadillo-eating-a-factor-in-leprosy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/doctrine\/armadillo-eating-a-factor-in-leprosy\/","title":{"rendered":"Armadillo Eating a Factor in Leprosy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/armadillo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>\nNine-banded Armadillo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Notice what seems to be causing leprosy in the American South:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- BODY,.aolmailheader     {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link    {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active  {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover   {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"headline\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eating armadillos blamed for leprosy in the South<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"deck\"><strong>Disease  likely spreads when people handle, eat the animals, which carry bacteria for  disfiguring disease<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Associated  Press<\/strong>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With some genetic sleuthing,  scientists have fingered a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in the  southern United States: the nine-banded armadillo.DNA tests show a match in the leprosy strain between some patients and these  prehistoric-looking critters \u2014 a connection scientists had suspected but until  now couldn&#8217;t pin down.\u00a0 <span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42788111\/ns\/health-infectious_diseases\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42788111\/ns\/health-infectious_diseases\/\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42788111\/ns\/health-infectious_diseases\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is not just armadillos that are problems.\u00a0 Unclean animals, specifically pigs, have been called &#8220;flu factories&#8221; (see <a title=\"Permanent Link to Pigs are Flu Factories\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"\/news\/prophecy\/pigs-are-flu-factories\/\">Pigs are Flu Factories<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Relatively soon, serious pestilences  are prophesied as we are prophetically at\/near the point Jesus called  \u201cthe beginning of sorrows\u201d\u2013which includes pestilences (Matthew 24:7-8).  Whether or how biblically unclean animals may be involved is not mentioned in scripture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If humans quit eating unclean animals, various health problems would probably go away.  But since many still do, it is possible that they may a role in fulfilling aspects of end-time Bible prophecy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FWIW, there is no scripture in the Bible that shows that any one called of God in either the Old or New Testaments ever ate any unclean animal.  Some may be surprised to hear that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Some articles of possibly related  interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/when-will-the-great-tribulation-begin.htm\">Can  the Great Tribulation Begin in 2011, 2012, or 2013?<\/a> Can the Great  Tribulation begin today? What is the \u201cbeginning of sorrows\u201d?  When is  the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of  the Lord?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/unclnt.htm\">The New Testament Church  and Unclean Meats<\/a> Are foods considered to have been unclean in the  Old Testament considered to be food in the New Testament? This article  discusses this from the perspective of the New Testament. It also has a  list of clean and unclean animals. It also answers the question, is pork  healthy or is pork dangerous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-banded Armadillo COGwriter Notice what seems to be causing leprosy in the American South: Eating armadillos blamed for leprosy in the South Disease likely spreads when people handle, eat the animals, which carry bacteria for disfiguring disease Associated Press&#8230; With some genetic sleuthing, scientists have fingered a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctrine","category-religious-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}