Assertion: armadillo | /r/CapableOf | carry the bacteria
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text: The armadillos in the southern United States carrying the bacteria that can cause leprosy are now found over a much larger geographic range than just a few years ago, a new study suggests.
text: Armadillos can carry many diseases and bacteria.
text: Armadillos have been known to carry the bacterium associated with human leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae), but no conclusive evidence that humans can contract leprosy from contact with armadillos has been found.
text: Scientists have suspected that armadillos could harbor and transmit the bacterium responsible for leprosy, known as Mycobacterium leprae, since the 1970s.
text: Indeed, these armadillos can carry the bacteria that cause leprosy and pass the bacteria along to humans.