Posted on 12/26/2013 5:28:16 AM PST by xzins
TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that is caused by a specific type of bacterial infection called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB usually affects the lungs, but it can also affect the brain, kidneys, spine or other organ systems. TB can cause serious health problems, including death, if left untreated.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), fewer people in the U.S. have TB disease than in past years. However, despite a decrease in reported TB cases, the disease remains a serious threat, especially for people living with HIV/AIDS. That’s because TB infection and HIV infection can work together to make you very sick. Worldwide, TB is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV.
TB is an issue for people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. because:
It is estimated that about 4.2% of Americans (13 million individuals) are infected with TB bacteria.
As of 2011, CDC estimated 6% of all TB cases and 10% of TB cases among people aged 25–44 occurred among people who were HIV-positive.
Because of the serious health risks for coinfection with TB and HIV, the CDC recommends that all HIV-positive people should be tested for TB. Those who test positive for TB should begin treatment immediately.
For more information, see CDC’s TB and HIV/AIDS.
In addition to tuberculosis, wasn’t there a new statistical link to a group in New York regarding meningitis?
The GLAAD-baggers will increase their demands for government programs to find cures for all the homo-diseases and will continue to blame the homo-psych problems on straight people.
Yep! TB is only one of **many** non-STD communicable diseases that homosexuals are spreading to the rest of us.
One of the questions on the health care survey that my insurers require me to answer every year is, if I use tobacco.
Not a single question on the survey as to whether I’m a fudge packing queer or not.
that’s because tobacco is deadly....er...a personal choice...uhhh....
/sarc
Don’t need to read all that sick perverted junk to know that being homo is just a really bad idea.
Facts are weapons
“HPV infects over 90 percent of HIV-positive gay men and 65 percent of HIV-negative gay men, according to a number of recent studies.”[18]”
I thought there was currently no HPV test for males.
There is visual inspection by medical people and there are unapproved tests.
Repeat after me: Homosexuals are just like you and me. Repeat as often as necessary until you believe it.
Russia has it more correct than we do! Open homosexuality should be illegal or at least severly frowned upon...for their sake and societies.
bkmk
Something that is anecdotally obvious, but nobody has mentioned so far is that homosexuals have far more physical and mental problems *not associated* with their sexuality, than do heterosexuals.
Both homosexuals and those that condemn their unhealthy “lifestyle”, tend to focus on those health problems *caused* by their lifestyle. Homosexuals often imagine, and encourage each other to blame victimization as a reason for their problems, and those who condemn their actions tend to lump their inherent problems with those based in their behavior.
Statistically, homosexuals have a lot more congenital problems than do heterosexuals. They also have far more autosomal recessive genes, but how many more has yet to be determined.
Homosexuals shy away from research about this out of fear that they may be forced into genetic experimentation, which has happened enough so that this fear is not entirely unfounded.
Queer = Common name for a mental disease.
BINGO!
We have a winner.
The largest number of ObamaCare enrollees are in the California Bay Area.
Wonder why? This is how ObamaCare is being marketed to the HIV positive gays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azoWedQH8zQ
Pre existing conditions won't stop ‘em
Assistance to help you pay ....
Get enrolled , get enrolled , get enrolled
Surprised to see my paper here - in the decade since it was first published I suspect that it is more difficult to obtain critical data as researchers are increasingly in lock-step support of the imperative to affirm, yea celebrate, homosexuality.
Awesome job, tjd. Would love to see the footnotes and points updated...not because they are any less factual, but for the sake of debate. Sometimes it’s too easy for naysayers to say “that’s old data.”
Maybe A&E can ask Phil Robertson to become the public service spokesman regarding the risks of .....Gay Bowel Syndrome (GBS) (chuckle)
Phil Robertson need not speak about anything else. Just read straight(chuckle) from the AMA / Physician’s Desk Reference Manual.
Just call me a peacekeeper...hehehe
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