NYC sees largest increase in tuberculosis cases in 26 years

NY Post ^ | March 26, 2018 | Carl Campanile

[jmacusa]

Nah, Pfffft! How could it be? Why the liberals all tell us how wonderful these happy children of the forest are. How the countries they run away,, er, emigrate from aren't disease ridden crap holes! Nah, not all! They're idyllic paradises’ where everything is clean and beautiful and they come to enrich us with their diseases, I mean.. uh... culture. Yeah that's it. Cultures. You now... cultures . Things that grow in a petri dish.

[publius911]

Could it be all those fraudulently documented foreigners????

I dunno...
But I do know this:

I have not gone to a public movie theater in 10 years, and I wouldn't ever take my grandchildren to one.

At the very least, fleas and head lice are rampant.

[jonrick46]

America, in the early 1900s screened every immigrant coming over on ships for symptoms of disease. If they had a serious communicable disease they were quarantined. If they had something real bad, they were sent back on the ship.

[GraceG]

[ Yes, they are. ‘Burlington, Vermont epidemiologists at the Vermont Department of Health are concealing the number of refugees with contagious active tuberculosis nearly a month after Watchdog reported that more than one-third of Vermont’s resettled refugees test positive for TB.’ This was in June 2016.

318 of 900 refugees admitted tested positive. Each one has to be given medicine daily and observed by a nurse. ]

alright everyone.... cough cough.... the migrants coming in have... cough cough... TB..... spoon clink.... cough cough.... peace out

Kudos to ANYONE who gets this...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease - New York City and the rise of tuberculosis
(10% increase in 2017 )

"...TB disproportionately affects foreign-born New Yorkers — accounting for 86 percent of all cases in the city.
Many of the infected city residents came from China, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, India or Mexico...
do we need to have active TB carriers in our midst?
Do you want your kids to sit in a classroom filled with active TB cases?"
Bring back the Ellis Island medical compound,
and assure native citizens that new arrivals are not bringing communicable diseases here !
Medical evaluations are just as important as are background checks.

[Candor7]

NYC has a bad case of Sanctuary TB, closely followed by the black syph!

[Doogle]

Probably under Odungo orders......

[Vaquero]

NYC motto:
We Bring The $h!thole Here!

[exDemMom]

There is a vaccine against tuberculosis, but the US does not use it. For one thing, there are questions about its efficacy, which is lower for older people who get the vaccine. For another, a vaccinated person will show up positive on a TB test, making the test useless as a rapid screen. The vaccine is typically used in countries where TB is rampant.

[BuffaloJack]

> Is the Black Death next? Thank you Obama.

I’d rather have the Black Plague than TB.
I contracted bubonic plague in 1970, and although hospitalized with 2 other guys also with plague, we got over it because there are antibiotics (streptomycin) that are effective against it. TB is much harder to treat.

[fruser1]

Over a quarter of my grandparent’s siblings died of TB in the early 1900s. 5 out of 23.

[Moonman62]

Democrats, importing and cultivating diseases for over 50 years.

[mewzilla]

Article neglects to mention how many of which forms of TB? I’d be even more concerned if they’re seeing MDR and/or XDR TB....

[rodguy911]

You gotta wonder who is letting sick people into the city and why?

[Gay State Conservative]

Damn Norwegians....trouble wherever they go!

[Neoliberalnot]

Good one Jack. I know plague is endemic in the SW US and some other western states. Did you pick up plague here or elsewhere. Thank God for antibiotics and big pharma.

[mewzilla]

A: NYS has lost almost half its House seats over the last 6 or so decades. NYC needs warm bodies. And it can’t afford to be picky.

[mewzilla]

And it would be very interesting to know how much of which forms of TB. If increased numbers of MDR and/or XDR are showing up, I can see why they’d spike that.

[oh8eleven]

Over a quarter of my grandparent’s siblings died of TB in the early 1900s.
One of the gruesome facts I discovered doing my family's genealogy (NYC 1850-2000), was the number of ancestors who died from TB.
Respiratory diseases thrived. Not only was it hard to stay alive back then, there were few "easy" ways to die.

[woodbutcher1963]

Movie theaters are also a nice place to have BED BUGS jump on you for a ride home.

Another reason not to go to the movies.