Posted on 09/17/2006 11:34:18 AM PDT by blam
Ultra-lethal TB sends fear through Africa
10:30 17 September 2006
From New Scientist Print Edition.
African countries last week agreed a plan to tackle a new and ultra-lethal strain of tuberculosis called Extensive Drug Resistant TB (XDR-TB).
It is especially harmful to people infected with HIV, killing 52 out of 53 HIV-positive people who caught it after attending a clinic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, earlier this year. All were infected with the same strain, suggesting that one infected person spread it to all the rest. Most died within 25 days - long before the three months it takes to get lab test results back.
At an emergency meeting in Johannesburg last week, the World Health Organization, the South African Medical Research Council and African health officials agreed a plan to screen for XDR-TB in 11 other African countries to see just how widespread it is. Until now, South Africa was the only African country capable of testing for it.
"We strongly fear that XDR-TB is likely to be in other places in Africa," says Paul Nunn, head of the WHO's TB drug resistance team.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
By all means, lets kick that Diversity Visa program into high gear!
Hmmmmm.....HIV doesn't kill them.....but TB will......Hmmmmm
Not good. Not good at all.
XDR-TB, is that the backup plan?
Boy,you've got that right.Not good for Africa and not good for the various western countries where they claim political asylum.
They'll blame US.
Just like crack cocaine, diet soda, birth-control pills, genetically-engineered crops, Church's chicken, and polio vaccinations.
Man, EVERYONE KNOWS IT...!
Coming to some US cities in the near future, thanks to our wide-open borders, multiculturalism and diversity.
"Diversity is perversity." (M. Savage)
Fot THIS REASON ALONE, we need to enforce border laws.
That especially means careful screening of any flight from Africa.
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