Revelation 6:7 & 8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.
A disease that has been feared since Biblical times is on the rise in Florida.
Officials near Daytona Beach say that three people have been diagnosed with leprosy over the last five months. Two of the patients reportedly had been infected after close contact with armadillos.
Three cases are unusually high for a disease that is considered rare.
Brevard County officials say that 18 cases of leprosy have been found in their county in the last five years and most of those cases are patients who had some kind of contact with armadillos.
Health officials say that only 150 to 250 new cases of leprosy are found in the United States each year. Â
Florida health officials say that the disease is not very contagious to the public at large.
