Posted on 08/24/2014 5:16:04 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Edited on 08/26/2014 7:31:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Agustin Zeferino, 24, received "extensive" information and medication for his illness, but he discontinued his treatment, public health officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Shoot to kill if not cooperative would be an option. Somebody wandering around town infecting people with a deadly disease knowingly does not deserve kindness.
Was he paid by the DH”S” to come to America?
Was he sent by the TSA to one of Obama’s 57 States
secretly and hidden?
Was he taken to be made a SCOTUS Judge by the DO”J”?
Bump for reference.
The world is full of mentally ill people who are incapable of acting in their own best interest or even considering the interests of others. Even if offered free hospitalization they would be incapable of staying if leaving was an option. They might need to steal to buy the illegal drugs they want and must have to disguise the pain they feel or they may simply be paranoid and fearful that the hospital staff will hurt them. Elsewhere perfectly normal people have been arrested and put in a prison ward for the same illness. California, is, of course, too liberal to do something that right-wing. (Cue the skittles rainbow.)
At any given time....there’s likely a thousand such people walking around and refusing treatment. Seems like we’d just start a camp/compound deal out in the middle of Montana...just send a guy up for twelve months and let them grasp the idea that you could have done this the easy way.
I am thinking the same thing. He’s endangering others’ lives the same as if he went crazy and started killing people.
Although there are drugs to help people infected, this ignorant animal has chosen to run and potentially infect everyone he comes in contact with. Whether this be by design or not is subject to debate. However the facts are that people infected with lethal diseases are running around free, infecting the population at large, with a pandemic becoming a very real possibility. IMHO, if they won't cooperate to help protect the population at large, they need to be put down like a rabid animal and the body burned to ashes...
Aren’t there islands off Alaska that these infectious morons could be quarantined on? They have no brains or conscience and should be isolated from society.
Important notes:
1) TB is common in parts of Mexico, central and South America. Typically it is “ordinary” (not drug resistant) TB. However, this man is known to have one of the forms of drug resistant TB.
2) TB is very slow growing, by bacterial standards, much like its closest relative, Leprosy. So about the only way to tell if it is drug resistant, and how drug resistant, is to give the patient an antibiotic, and wait a while to see if it works. If not, then different antibiotics. But this can only be done if the patient continues to take their antibiotics and continues to be monitored. If they take off, like this man, they do not know how resistant his TB is.
It is hard to tell from looking at the bacteria whether it is alive or dead, but this is helped by the re-discovery of a chemical stain that live bacteria will uptake, but dead bacteria will not.
3) Once a person has been exposed (infected) with TB, they need to take one kind of drug for about six months to eliminate it from their system. If the disease has gone into an active form, they must take different drugs for a year or two.
4) The known kinds of TB are “ordinary” TB, just called TB, then Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB), Multiple Drug Resistant (MDR-TB), EXtensively Drug Resistant (XDR-TB), and Completely Drug Resistant (CDR-TB).
Fortunately, DR-TB is scarce, but becoming more common in third and fourth world countries, and is treatable with low mortality. MDR-TB can still be treated in first world nations. XDR-TB has a substantial mortality rate with treatment. And there have been only two CDR-TB outbreaks, both in India, and both of which killed everyone infected, so burned themselves out.
5) TB, which used to be called “consumption” and “the white plague”, can flare up in about any organ in the body, though also typically attacks the lungs.
“The classic symptoms of active TB infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss.” From there it can attack the nervous system, brain and spinal cord (causing paralysis), heart, skin, muscles, and internal organs. Some people looked healthy, then just died.
In the past, it sometimes resulted in peculiar symptoms like hyper-sexuality, hyper-creativity, insanity, etc.
In its epidemic form, it caused cultural trauma and morbid thought throughout Europe. What we associate with the Victorian and Gothic ‘looks’, are all based in ‘the TB look’. Pale, gaunt, sickly looking.
TB sanitariums used to be common, and were distinguished by their prominent smokestacks for furnaces used to burn mattresses and linens.
Here is a list of celebrities, artists, writers and others who were afflicted with TB. You might be surprised.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tuberculosis_cases
Another bug ping...
Did I miss seeing Edgar Allen Poe on that writer list? He died from it. (according to resources I used to write a report )
Wiki lists various possibilities.
The new Hollywood diet! (With some minor side effects - who cares.) The Fabulous People will be paying good money to contract it!
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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