Posted on 10/21/2016 2:46:21 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Full title : Ingham County, Michigan: One Refugee Diagnosed With Multi-Drug Resistant TB; 22 Percent Have Latent TB.
One of the 3,554 refugees resettled in Ingham County, Michigan (Lansing) during the six years beginning October 1, 2010 and ending on September 30, 2016 (FY 2011 to FY 2016) has been diagnosed with multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB), the Ingham County Health Department tells Breitbart News.
MDR TB is a very dangerous and expensive to treat type of TB that is a growing world wide problem and has recently become a public health issue in the United States as well.
In addition to to the one case of MDR TB diagnosed among refugees in Ingham County, four additional cases of active TB were diagnosed among refugees in Ingham County during this six-year period, the Ingham County Health Department says.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Great.
Michigan TB ( Multi Drug Resistant)
Previously, Breitbart News reported that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) confirmed that eighteen refugees have been diagnosed with active TB in the state of Michigan during the five years between FY 2011 and FY 2015. A nineteenth case of active TB among refugees was reported in March 2016 by the Oakland County Health Department.
In response to a FOIA request from Breitbart News, MDHHS said that no refugees had been diagnosed with MDR TB in the state during the five years between FY 2011 and FY 2015.
TB is still less deadly then the illness of islam.
“Cases of MDR tuberculosis have been reported in every country surveyed.[7] MDR-TB most commonly develops in the course of TB treatment,[8] and is most commonly due to doctors giving inappropriate treatment, or patients missing doses or failing to complete their treatment. Because MDR tuberculosis is an airborne pathogen, persons with active, pulmonary tuberculosis caused by a multidrug-resistant strain can transmit the disease if they are alive and coughing.[7] TB strains are often less fit and less transmissible, and outbreaks occur more readily in people with weakened immune systems (e.g., patients with HIV).[9][10][11][12][13] Outbreaks among non immunocompromised healthy people do occur,[14] but are less common.[8]
As of 2013, 3.7% of new tuberculosis cases have MDR-TB. Levels are much higher in those previously treated for tuberculosis - about 20%. WHO estimates that there were about 0.5 million new MDR-TB cases in the world in 2011. About 60% of these cases occurred in Brazil, China, India, the Russian Federation and South Africa alone.[15] In Moldova, the crumbling health system has led to the rise of MDR-TB.[16] In 2013, the Mexico–United States border was noted to be “a very hot region for drug resistant TB”, though the number of cases remained small.[17]
Source: Wikipedia
It’s definitely a concern.
That's discouraging !
Great. I live in Ingham County.
Huh, looks like Lansing? Gosh darn.
Agreed. It seems to be (here in our country) a disease of the past, but unfortunately, in some areas of the world, it is not.
Obama’s response: “I love it when a plan comes together!!!”
“Agreed. It seems to be (here in our country) a disease of the past,”
Yep,it took my father 1n 1938 .
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I’m very sorry. It’s a serious disease, even now.
Turdistan turd world problems brought in by govt selection
It is the mussies bringing it in
Deadly diseases kill just as effectively
The powers that be couldn’t give a flip about the citizens of this country.
They expose us to disaster all for the purpose of projecting their sense of superiority and magnanimity at our expense.
We are nothing but zoo animals to these elitist bastards.
makes me feel better now that I’m on Remicade.
On a related note, on XDR TB...
Questions and answers about extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB)
http://www.who.int/features/qa/extensively-resistant-tuberculosis/en/
That’s an anti inflammatory ...not useful against TB
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