Workers at 2 Minnesota Hospitals Diagnosed with Active TB, 141 Patients ‘May Have Been Exposed’

breitbart ^ | 4 Jun 2016 | Michael Patrick Leahy

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Two workers at Mercy Hospital and Abbot Northwestern Hospital, both located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area and owned by Allina Health, have been diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB).

“I can confirm that one hospital worker at Mercy Hospital and one hospital worker at Abbott Northwestern Hospital were diagnosed with active TB,” Allina Health Vice President of Marketing and Communications David Kanihan tells Breitbart News.

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“We identified 141 patients who came into close enough contact with these workers so that there is any possibility at all of potential exposure to TB,” he adds.

“We are contacting each of these patients. At this point we have no evidence that any of these patients have actually contracted TB,” Kanihan says.

Allina Health did not clarify whether the hospital workers diagnosed with active TB were physicians, nurses, medical assistants, or other support staff.

Last year, a local newspaper reported that three employees of the Fridley Clinic, also owned by Allina Health and within ten miles of the two hospitals where the workers were diagnosed with active TB, received awards from Anoka County, the fourth most populous county in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, for their volunteer work medically screening refugees.

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Infectious Disease Ping List

Workers at 2 Minnesota Hospitals Diagnosed with Active TB, 141 Patients ‘May Have Been Exposed’

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Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[LydiaLong]

“But I’m not dead yet...”

[Pelham]

Bring in refugees and immigrants with active TB, and America is no longer free of tuberculosis like it once was.

Barky’s America. Dubya’s America.

Serving the interests of foreigners first.

[Diogenesis]

This is outrageous and predicted.

The incurable are being Quartered by the DH”S”
and there is no one speaking up in the “US” Congress.
NO ONE.

“Luckily”, the EXEMPT will have continue to be EXEMPT
and have their own Kennedy-level of care, taken
by helicopters to whereever they need, as the
rest of America has no functional healthcare at all.

[little jeremiah]

Somalis or Syirans the source?

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Hospitals are going to be ground zero for illegal-alien induced epidemics.

[Steely Tom]

Here’s a story that’ll be going in the memory hole.

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[Nifster]

I would put money on the workers being aides or housekeeping and most likely Somali refugees

[fireman15]

Hospitals are going to be ground zero for illegal-alien induced epidemics.

That is exactly what happens. One time our paramedics talked an old man into going into the hospital; I can’t remember what for... While at the hospital he picked up respiratory MERSA; if you look at our emergency rooms they are full of illegal immigrants. Less than a month later both he and his elderly wife were dead. The diseases that these people, both legal and illegal are bringing with them are killing off our elderly especially. And they get them when they go to their doctors office or the emergency room. When we actually had control of our borders, sick people were turned away.

[Joe Brower]

This is a direct consequence of our decades-old acquiescence to the millions of illegal aliens we have allowed in from Mexico and points further south.

Almost twenty years ago I hired a contractor to help me build a backyard shed in San Diego. His helper, a middle-aged Mexican man, was nice enough, and skilled, but was coughing up blood on occasion. The problem was obvious.

I told the contractor to either get rid of him or he loses the job. The next day, he came alone.

[Hulka]

Illegal aliens bringing third-world diseases to a first world (for now) country.

[Catmom]

Or more likely nurses.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Gone are the days....

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Pelham : "Barky’s America. Dubya’s America.
Serving the interests of foreigners first."

Did you ever notice that Barky nationalized health care,
which was 20% of the gross domestic product,
made it legally defined as a tax (!)
and keeps adding more medical 'entitlements' and 'procedures' that previously weren't covered under health care,
and then insists that we don't have closed borders , but is willing to fight for other countries' sovereignty.
We have become the World's Hospital, paid for through citizen taxation, where an immigrant has more rights and benefits than the citizen who is paying for it.
Barky has become : "The Plague _resident"

[PGR88]

$100 bet they were somali-born cleaners roaming the hospital in their duties

[teletech]

Trump was right again!

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fireman15 :" Hospitals are going to be ground zero for illegal-alien induced epidemics."

Remember 'the good old days' when you went to the hospital to get relief ?
Nowadays , you have to be concerned that you don't come down with another disease
than why you went to the hospital in the first place (MRSA , tb , superbugs, etc.)