leprosy and vintage mouthpieces

[Donn]

I looked it up, herbal remedy is "latex of Sodom".

But I doubt that it has anything to do with an old mouthpiece. The risk of contacting leprosy is one good reason not to be fooling around with armadillos.

[iiipopes]

If the silver plating on the mouthpiece is intact, then you had about as much a chance of contracting leprosy off the mouthpiece as a churchman contracting the flu off a chalice - zero.

Since leprosy is a bacteriological illness, is there anything you need to discuss otherwise? As in the biblical causes of leprosy? We would all hate it if the cause was a "leprous house."