Posted on 11/10/2011 1:18:11 PM PST by Hunton Peck
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.
The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
“Over the last three months were have been two persons who have resided in this facility who have been diagnosed with confirmed or suspected infectious tuberculosis (TB),” said Fulton County Services Director Matthew McKenna in a written statement to CBS Atlanta. “One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition. All person(s) identified as positive have begun treatment and are being monitored to ensure that medication is taken as directed.”
The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has indicated that two cases have been made public knowledge to the group, the first coming from someone who contracted the disease in September. The identities of the people who have contracted the disease, however, have not been disclosed by the health department to this point.
The news of the tuberculosis contractions could force Occupy Atlanta to move once again. WGCL reports that more than 100 protesters made the move to the homeless shelter Oct. 30 after Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed evicted Occupy Atlanta from Woodruff Park, citing that they were no longer allowed to camp out overnight. The homeless shelter is also facing an eviction of its own from the city.
Messages left by CBS Atlanta for Occupy Atlanta and the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless were not immediately returned.
It’s Bush’s fault.
lolololol
Just like the Tea Party.........
Don’t be alarmed.
This is just Darwinian Natural Selection at work.
Wait until the influenza epidemic hits.
Not to worry - we have Obamacare!
Staying out all winter in crowded close quarters, or in this case, forced indoors with long-time unhealthy homeless people. Cough, cough. The TB isn’t much of a surprise. The drug resistance of the strains is more modern—probably a mix of HIV incubators and illegals bringing that in. A real public health hazard.
They will have to rely on big drug merchants and those awful private hospitals for treatment.
*SMIRK*
Good for them the CDC is nearby.
My thoughts exactly. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Does anybody have a complete list of crimes, rapes, murders, diseases, arrests at these occupy protests, that would make one heck of a list ...
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Occupy the 17th century!
[ Don’t be alarmed.
This is just Darwinian Natural Selection at work.
Wait until the influenza epidemic hits. ]
Quarantine the area immediately and give the protesters a big giant tent they can wallow about it and pass it on tot he other freaks.
Check back in a year to see if there are any survivors....
Just wait until we start hearing about the exotic STDs!
Another part of me is outraged by the refusal of city administrators and police to enforce the law. There is a reason for regulations about overnight camping in urban parks, basic sanitation in handling food and waste, etc. It's to try to ensure public health and safety.
Those officials are being grossly negligent in their duties for cheap political gain.
Does anybody have a complete list of crimes, rapes, murders, diseases, arrests at these occupy protests, that would make one heck of a list ...
the internet is not big enough
TB will take years off of a persons life.
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