There's no reason to worry about TB, LM. It's prevalent in the fishing villages and some of the barrios in the Philippines, but then the 4 different types of malnutrition wasting are present there too, and the death rate is due to lack of treatment and malnutrition. The USA has about 5 deaths per year, so it's no biggee.

Aside from syphilis and gonorrhea, there's an odd form of leprosy that's not very contagious and to which almost everyone is immune they could possibly have.

And I might add - keep your shots up. Had an anti vax friend who swore up and down he's never been vaxxed and never sick in his life. He got shingles. :) Which means he'd had chicken pox as a kid and forgot.

I'd be more concerned about the number of kids that are going to be hurt and killed by our anti-vax stupidity. Adults - just don't clog up the hospitals with your disease ridden carcass, we need room for the kids.

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