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Hundreds tested for TB in Lynn
The Boston Herald ^ | September 9, 2014 | AP via Boston Herald

Posted on 09/09/2014 9:28:57 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe

LYNN, Mass. — More than 30 Lynn Community Health Center employees and 800 patients are being tested to determine if they were exposed to tuberculosis after center doctors confirmed a case.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: health; massachusetts; tb; tuberculosis
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To: Smokin' Joe

Trying to gin up some sympathy for the M*ssholes, but not having much success.


21 posted on 09/09/2014 10:02:10 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I had atypical TB 40 years ago. No fun! They locked me in a TB ward at Milwaukee General. They finally stuck a tube down my gullet, and went into my right lung and took a sample, realized it was atypical, most lilely from gardening, and that I was not contagious. Took meds for over a year. And I’d lost abdo-lutely everything I had whilst I was locked up. Different kinda TB!


22 posted on 09/09/2014 10:02:15 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Army Air Corps

Increasing our treasured diversity.


23 posted on 09/09/2014 10:03:42 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: who knows what evil?

When you consider the people affected might even be conservatives behind the lines, so to speak, I can pull it off. Just because someone is hoist on their own petard, doesn’t mean the manufacturer of the problem was the one who caught it. Most likely, the people who cast the votes and made the decisions which may have created the situation will not be exposed.


24 posted on 09/09/2014 10:09:17 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Meanwhile...LOW turn-out for today’s primary in neighboring soviet Red Hampshire...guess the people there are down with their current overseers.


25 posted on 09/09/2014 10:09:46 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

My wife had a near miss on mass TB testing when she was a school nurse. A Bosnian refugee student in her school had a positive reaction to a TB skin test. It took a lot of work with interpreters to convince the kid’s parents to allow a chest X-ray. Fortunately his chest X-ray was negative and it turns out that he was immunized at a refugee camp with a BCG TB vaccine which would give him a permanent positive reaction to a TB skin test. Another area school was not so lucky and had to do mass TB screenings and several students and faculty were required to take anti-TB medications for a year. Coming soon to your local schools thanks to Obama.


26 posted on 09/09/2014 10:11:02 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ

When I was in grade school (and even later) all the kids were routinely tested for TB.


27 posted on 09/09/2014 10:12:57 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I remember being lined up for that, in kinder or 1st, IIRC.


28 posted on 09/09/2014 10:15:24 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Smokin' Joe

The Jews that fled Nazi Germany made out much better than the Jews who procrastinated...


29 posted on 09/09/2014 10:15:45 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: laplata

I believe the terms the MSM used were “waves of unaccompanied children” (descended on Lynn).
Looks like something was accompanying them after all.
And Lynn’s mayor is a woman, attorney and former school board member? Nice job mare.


30 posted on 09/09/2014 10:26:15 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: TomGuy
If we follow all of the various ‘new’ breakouts of contagions, we possibly can locate where Team Obama dumped the tens-of-thousands of illegal ‘kids’ who seemed to have disappeared.

Correct. Unaccompanied minors swamp Lynn, Mass.; no help from feds says mayor. An influx of children from Central America immigrating to the United States without their parents is frustrating officials in this gritty city nearly 2,200 miles from the Mexican border.

In the past two years, Lynn has seen waves of unaccompanied minors settle here after crossing the U.S.-Mexican border illegally, city officials say. Most are teenage boys from Guatemala who speak little or no English when they arrive, and they have little or no documentation.

“We have become a major haven for immigration,” said Mayor Judy Kennedy. “But with all these new people come needs: police, fire and city services. And we’re getting no help from the federal government.”a>

31 posted on 09/09/2014 10:28:43 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Jane Long

We got the test every couple of years.


32 posted on 09/09/2014 10:29:02 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: tumblindice

I saw the Lynn Mayor on FOX. She was very frustrated with the influx of kids but apologetic and very politically correct. Progressives are sick in many ways.


33 posted on 09/09/2014 10:30:43 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for that, Joe.


34 posted on 09/09/2014 10:34:42 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: laplata
She has reason to be politically correct.

As of the census of 2010, there were 90,329 people, 33,310 households, and 20,988 families residing in the city.

The racial makeup of the city was:

57.6% Whites

12.8% African American

0.7% Native American

7.0% Asian

0.1% Pacific Islander

6.8% from other races

5.0% from two or more races

Hispanic or Latino of any race were 32.1% of the population (10.5% Dominican, 6.3% Guatemalan, 5.4% Puerto Rican, 2.8% Salvadoran, 1.7% Mexican, 0.6% Honduran, 0.4% Colombian, 0.4% Spanish, 0.2% Peruvian, 0.2% Cuban).

Cambodians form the largest Asian origin group in Lynn, with 3.9% of Lynn's total population of Cambodian ancestry. Other large Asian groups are those of Vietnamese (1.0%), Indian (0.4%), Chinese (0.3%), and Laotian (0.2%) ancestry.

35 posted on 09/09/2014 10:39:44 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Smokin' Joe

Lynn, Lynn,
The city of sin
You never get out
the way you went in. (Classic ditty about Lynn, MA)

I had a gig once in which the Mayor of Lynn was launching a new billboard campaign called “Lynn, Lynn, the city of PRIDE”. He asked me what I thought of the billboards.

I said that “PRIDE” was the deadliest sin of all.

He replied “Smartass!”


36 posted on 09/09/2014 10:40:38 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

LOL...I never heard the complete, unredacted, original of this “classic ode”.


37 posted on 09/09/2014 10:42:36 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Another festering cesspit!


38 posted on 09/09/2014 10:44:41 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Another Undocumented Bug!


39 posted on 09/09/2014 10:57:57 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: All

keep voting democrat, massholes...


40 posted on 09/09/2014 11:01:56 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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