Don't Worry About Leprosy Just Yet

“That to me is what the fascinating thing about it is. All these individual factors that have to do with ecology, population, animals, different people traveling from all over the world. There’s that perfect storm that has to happen, and then you might have something interesting.”
 — But for now we’re fine, says Dr. Don Weiss, director of surveillance for the New York City Health Department’s Bureau of Communicable Diseases, discussing the range of exotic illnesses (including leprosy, cholera, Bubonic plague, and others) that find their way into town.