SC - more on Armadillos for Gunther

[helen]

Hi,
    My mom used to work for the Leper colony in South Louisiana. (the worst
environment for a person with that illness)  And the Doctors there looked for a
host for years that they could grow leprosy on so they could study the disease.
They finally found it would grow on the tiny foot pads of the Armadillo and were
able to study them.      Unfortunately the Armadillos escaped all the time.
They can not prove that no armadillo had leprosy before the study, but I believe
the escapees spread it in an otherwise healthy wild population.

Helen

Kay Loidolt wrote:

> Ras is right, the main reason you don't see armadillo as the next
> 'high protein, low fat' local cuisine is leprosy. Something about FDA
> regulations. Go figure.
> Most wild game meats come from game farms. Yes, I hate to say it,
> there's a little quandry here for me as an environmental biologist. But,
> there are no armadillo ranches for harvesting of roasts, loins, soup
> meat, or chops that I know of.
> On the other hand they are edible, but do you really want to take the
> chance? I would like to have one as a pet, but like baby turtles you got
> to be careful. They got that salmonella thing going...
> Are there any armadillo festivals in Trimaris, Meridies, or Ansteorra?
> That will be the best possible place that I can think of to get
> armadillo shishkebabs. Yum!
> By the way shining for 'dillos is a lot of fun, so I have been told.
> They have a habit of jumping when hit with bright lights, hence so many
> road kills in the South.
> And for the record, they have been found far north as Missouri now,
> and two years ago, we had one discovered in the very far south of
> Indiana. They really love to travel.
>
> Seanan
>
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