Posted on 01/25/2019 7:29:59 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating a tuberculosis outbreak among eight people associated with Minnesota State University, Mankato.
State health officials are asking clinics to look out for tuberculosis symptoms in college-aged individuals who have spent time at the university since August 2016.
Risk factors for the infection usually include travel abroad to a country where TB is common, but in this case, all but one contracted TB in the United States.
Investigators believe the bacteria originated with an international student and spread to at least seven others who had close contact with them, Schultz said. The majority of those affected are MSU students or former students.
To contain the outbreak, health officials contacted about 700 people who may have interacted with the patients, such as roommates and significant others. Of those, they identified another 30 individuals who have a latent form of TB...
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Yeah, it would indeed have been kinda nice if the journalist had added that missing detail.
But I guess that the journalist didn't want to confirm any of the biases of non-liberal readers.
Regards,
I don't get what you're saying. First, you want to know from what country the international student is, and in the next breath, you're telling us your parents live there. WHERE is "there"?? You're not making any sense.
WHERE is obviously Mankato, where the TB has broken out.
Regards,
“Well, there is “it”, but not a third person singular gender-neutral pronoun for humans...”
There are 3 genders: Masculine, feminine, and neuter. You are a man, a woman, or sexless.
Mankato is NOT a country. I’m talking about the INTERNATIONAL student - from which country is he?
Well they are testing students here at a HS in TN because another student has TB.
No one here knows. The FReeper talking about his parents and fellow churchmembers being "there" and thus possibly in danger was referring to Mankato.
You wrote: I don't get what you're saying. First, you want to know from what country the international student is, and in the next breath, you're telling us your parents live there. WHERE is "there"?? You're not making any sense.
He was making perfect sense! The FReeper's sentence structure was impeccable. The FReeper, too, has no idea where the internat'l student is from (the article coyly denies us this info), but the FReeper has friends and relatives in Mankator, where the TB was discovered. That's all he said!
Regards,
In the past couple years, St. Paul has had cases among Hmongs, and a few years before that, Guatemalans.
In the past couple years, St. Paul has had cases among Hmongs, and a few years before that, Guatemalans.
My parents live in Mankato. They have friends who work in the college. Their church is very near campus and has an outreach ministry to international students who attend MSU. What I meant was that it would be nice for them to know where the international student who infected so many with TB was from so that they could know if they potentially had contact with that student either directly or indirectly.
My parents were part of a host program and their student was from Indonesia. Was the one with TB from Indonesia? If so, then it’s more likely my parents were in contact with someone who had direct contact with the student who was infected. If the TB student was not from Indonesia then they were less likely to have been exposed. It’s all so vague that people are unaware of what their risk of exposure was.
Just saw your post-thanks for understanding what I meant :).
[bacteria originated with an international student and spread to at least seven others]
Celebrate Pestilence Diversity!!!
Sure it’s pretty much the same but this time it’s imported!
Everybody loves “imported” stuff, right?
I knew a field anthropologist who found the skeletal remains of a 14-16 y/o male on the North Slope of Alaska. The bones were carbon-dated as 14,000 years old. There was evidence of TB infection in the joints. TB has been around for a LONG time.
minnesota has most immigration from Somalia, and don’t get me started...
Look on any map of Minnesota. Like a belt, the Minnesota river makes a sharp northeastward bend in the southern part of the state. Mankato is at the bend in the river.
I guess TB pops up every once in awhile:
https://www.poncacitynow.com/no-additional-cases-of-tb-found-in-initial-testing-at-school/
Glad we didnt have 8 confirmed here, but then again who knows what illegals will bring across the border in the future (or
already have).
And my mother living in an assisted living facility (very new, very modern, looks clean), was closed down and quarantined by county health department because almost all the residents came down with intestinal problems. . .seems kitchen staff were almost all illegals and they don’t practice proper hygiene and e-coli erupted.
Why are you telling us this? How is this something we didn't already know (or could easily find out in Wikipedia)? How is this relevant?
Regards,
One would think all the staff were tested prior to employment and periodically there after. Sadly, that’s not the case in many places.
e-coli is a tricky little thing. My husband and I eat basically the same things. Hubby ended up the hospital with it for a week. Don’t know how he got it.
People living in assisted living may have lower immune systems. More susceptible.
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