Vermont Admits Seventeen Refugees Diagnosed With Active TB

breitbart ^ | July 11, 2016 | Michael Patrick Leahy

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Between 2003 and 2015, the state has recorded 77 cases of active tuberculosis in Vermont. Of those, the Health Department says just 15 were diagnosed in refugees. 26 of the cases were in U.S.-born individuals. The remainder were in people who fell into other categories, like people living in Vermont on student or work visas.

I think I will spend summer vacation elsewhere.

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INFECTIOUS DISEASE PING

Vermont : Active TB Update

[Paine in the Neck]

But the CDC has their Top.Men. working on VT’s dangerously lax gun laws.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

All part of Obama’s “fairness doctrine.”

[faucetman]

I just knew those filthy Mooslimbs had cooties!

Just say NO to cooties.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Paine in the Neck :" But the CDC has their Top.Men. working on VT’s dangerously lax gun laws."

No doubt !
I already "FEEL THE BERN " of Socialism, and "No Borders",
and like 'Bern', it is spreading into the populace.
Hitlery and Bernie are going to try tocontaminate New Hampshire later today.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I wonder if the 26 cases of TB in U.S. born individuals were Americans who caught TB from “refugees.”

[bigbob]

Let them live in Bernie’s garage

[GingisK]

Get them a job in the food industry as soon as possible. Why are our leaders trying to kill us?

[uncitizen]

truth is the meat industry is where they are being placed for work. no, its not a coincidence. jihad leaders have told them to use poisoning as one mwthod of killing us. sooooo....

[Texan]

Way back when Ellis Island was the gateway for immigrants to the U.S., they checked them for diseases and wouldn’t let people with TB etc. in. Now measles, TB and what looked like polio are re-appearing.

[headstamp 2]

[truth is the meat industry is where they are being placed for work]

Gotta sluff down that Chobani yogurt too. Yum.

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july4thfreedomfoundation:" I wonder if the 26 cases of TB in U.S. born individuals were Americans who caught TB from “refugees.”

Thank you - that is my concern also.
But what is really concerning is whether there are increased numbers of the medication-resistant TB.

[The Great RJ]

Understand a single person with active TB means that everybody who came in close contact with that individual will likely need a year of anti tubercular medications and those with any contact need to have a TB skin test. Imagine in a school the number of people who would need to be tested and treated if only one of these active TB cases were a student. More frightening would be if even one of these active TB cases were not detected.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is VERY expensive to cure someone of active TB. They must take an antibiotic for several months and a health worker must physically administer and observe the patient taking the dose in person.

[BipolarBob]

I love Chobani yogurt but it has been placed on my do not buy list. Their Muslim owner is importing as many Muslims as he can and is lobbying for more.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Blood of Tyrants :" It is VERY expensive to cure someone of active TB.
They must take an antibiotic for several months and
a health worker must physically administer and observe the patient taking the dose in person."

As I recall, the expense of an active TB case is over $17,000. per year, not including the salary of the health worker.
As I recall, the expense of an active 'medication-resistant TB' is in excess of $200,000. per year in medication alone.
Given the contagious nature of both forms of TB, I think that it would pay Vermont to establish its own form of Ellis Island medical isolation,
just to assure the residents that it is unlikely that there would be any further contagion among its state population.

[Blood of Tyrants]

How dare you suggest that we use common sense! Are you some kind of racist? /sarc

[bgill]

Obama, the gift that keeps on giving.

[Ranger Warrior]

How is the People’s Republic of Vermont dealing with this? More Kumbya, candlelight vigils, ????