Posted on 09/19/2014 6:03:42 PM PDT by detective
More than 700 infants at an El Paso hospital have been exposed to tuberculosis by an employee infected with the disease, according to public health officials.
The city’s Department of Public Health says the infants along with about 40 employees at Providence Memorial Hospital were exposed.
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only certain demographics in America...
Well isn’t this just ducky.
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Hospitals are for sick people.
Or, for those who soon will be, looks like.
Normal deliveries should take place at home, just like they have for most people throughout history.
Gee, I wonder why there isn’t a huge TB epidemic breaking out in Alaska, huh? All our enemies need to do is infect a few of these illegals with the ebola virus and we are in deep excrement!
Next time... Ebola.
I think Jeb Bush would call this “an act of love”.
Believe it or not some TB patients were still active in the U.S. in the early 1980's. I worked maintenance in a large nursing home that had a TB floor. The nursing home was actually in an old TB hospital and the use converted to a nursing home after the epidemic was ended.
Obama...the foreign killer of the innocent.
I was exposed to TB in 1937-38.
I still test positive with the tine test.
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Lord have mercy on all these infants. Protect them by holding them in your bosom, dear Lord.
Why is someone with TB even working in a hospital?
**The CDC warns that tuberculosis, if not treated properly, can be fatal.**
What is the treatment?
Employee, my a@@. An illegal getting free healthcare spread it..
TB walked across the wide open border.
A positive stick usually means chest X-Ray to determine IIRC. You may even have an immunity to some degree to it.
TB was never eliminated in the U.S. rather it was tightly controlled and monitored including doctors today still doing annual chest X-Rays. New antibiotics and most important a patients willingness to comply ended the epidemic but not the disease itself.
It had a major come back due to two prevailing factors. Unregulated {illegal} immigration from third world nations without any proper medical check up and inoculations, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic played a part as well. These two created the Super Bug TB being seen today. Some illegals had TB and did not follow completely the necessary treatment plan to place it into full remission.
Because they may not have realized they had it. I know of good healthcare workers especially ones who are CNA who have direct contact be exposed and have to take the meds for a year. It's a hazard of the job. I've worked around active TB patients. I've also been stuck as in bleeding because some idiot on the floor placed an open safety pin in the garbage and I picked up the bag. One year of mandatory blood testing for every thing you can imagine followed.
You think TB is bad? The scarey one is Syphilis. We had a patient die from it. It wasn't pretty and this was before facilities were FORCED into using Universal Precautions. The place my wife and I once worked in would write you up for using gloves I kid you not. That was in the 1980's.
Hubby ws a firefighter in a small town here that is 98% Mexican, probably half of them illegal. They had cases of drug resistant TB and even leprosy. If it was supposed to have been eradicated it was in that small town.
Most people don’t have a clue.
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