Posted on 05/23/2016 6:36:41 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Four refugees sent to Indiana by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement in 2015 were diagnosed with active tuberculosis once they arrived in the Hoosier State, according to the Indiana Department of Health.
Active tuberculosis (TB) is infectious, while so-called “latent TB” is not infectious. But 10 percent of those infected with latent TB develop active infectious TB.
In 2015, almost 400 migrants with latent TB settled in Indiana, according to state records. The state’s TB rate had declined for the 54 years up to 2010, but is now increasing as more migrants settle in the state.
“Tuberculosis is one of the most lethal infectious diseases in history,” Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and surgeons, told Breitbart News last week. “It is easily transmitted, say on a public bus [and] increasingly, it is becoming highly resistant to all our antibiotics,” she said.
The disease is airborne and is “caused by a group of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. General symptoms may include a prolonged, productive cough, blood-tinged sputum, night sweats, fever, fatigue, and weight loss,” the Indiana Department of Health reports. (continues)
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Welcome to the Turd World!
Infectious Disease Ping
They shouldn’t be here in the first place....without and especially with TB.
The US turned away white europeans with TB.
Exactly true !
That is why Ellis Island served as reception center for immigrants; people were tested for disease and either cured there , or returned to the country from whence they came.
The intent was to protect and defend the homeland from criminals, organized crime, diseases, and undesirables .
Wow. Their requirements for importing birds are stricter... there’s a mandatory quarantine.
Our current government is our enemy - set out to smash our culture to smithereens.
Oh. It’s not a problem. All hospital personnel. Every parent is tested for th. Depleted man hours with all the paperwork. Keeps the particular pharmaceutical company in business
Are you being sarcastic?
But we’ll take in HIV Positive Trans-Genders and Sodomites.
It’s true. And my tone is pissed
I live in one of those cities mentioned in the article. I knew about the “refugees” but not about the TB. Wow.
Thanks.
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