TB outbreak tied to Minnesota State, Mankato [MN] under investigation

Star Tribune ^ | January 25, 2019 — 8:52am | By Liz Sawyer

[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...

[Red Badger]

Minnesota?

Hmmmmm..........................What’s so different in Minnesota ?...............................What could it be?..........................Haven’t the foggiest........................

[shelterguy]

Investigators believe the bacteria originated with an international student ..............

We have those in Minnesota??? Who knew?

[CaptainAmiigaf]

EXACTLY what my first thought was. Does that make us nasty people?
I find it awful how often my “bigoted” first thought turns out to be 100% correct. Really upsetting isn’t it when that “first thought” if regretfully correct?

[PGR88]

American’s have tried a society based on a republican system of limited government, respect for property rights, rule of law, and individual rights of enlightened people also exercising self-responsibility.

That apparently didn’t work.

Because now Americans want to try out the in-bred, tribal, low-IQ, illiterate, 3rd world Somali way.

[NorthstarMom]

The Mankato Free Press coverage is pretty vague. It would be nice to know from which country the international student is from. My parents live there and several of their friends and fellow church members work there. Their church also has an active and large outreach to international MSU students. Since neither of my parents is in the best of health, I’d like to know if they have been exposed.

[null and void]

Investigators believe the bacteria originated with an international student and spread to at least seven others who had close contact with them

"an"? "them"? Is it more than one foreigner, or are they guilty of wrong-pronouning this person?

They don't screen students for communicable diseases before cramming them Ito crowded dorms?

I smell a class action lawsuit in the offing...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[mewzilla]

Many, many moons ago a TB test was part of my pre-admission physical for college.

Guess that’s gone the way of the dodo.

[mewzilla]

Something of even more concern: The rag doesn’t mention if it’s TB, MDR-TB, or XDR-TB.

[Tax-chick]

The writers don’t want to say “him” or “her,” because that would reveal the sex of the infected person. I guess they don’t want to say “him or her,” because even a casual reader would then ask, “Well, which is it?”

Another reason to be a commuter student ...

[Hulka]

“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.”

Another wonderful by-product of illegals in this country. . .the resurgence of third-world diseases and illnesses.

To immigrate legally, immigrants must have immunizations and other inoculations. Illegals, they are walking germ factories.

[Mercat]

Reporters are directed not to use male/female pronouns so use the plural.

[bgill]

Have they bothered to look at the foreign students and the foreign population in Minn or is that not PC?

[bgill]

A Texas school district has closed down to disinfect it’s classrooms because of the flu. Lets see, hmm, students came back from Christmas break on Jan. 7 from visiting grandma in Mexico and two weeks later 1/3rd of all students are out sick. Can’t imagine that there would be a connection.

[Mears]

“Many, many moons ago a TB test was part of my pre-admission physical for college.”

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I still test positive with the TB tine test——and I was exposed(father) in 1937-———he died in 1938.

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[null and void]

Reporters are directed not to use male/female pronouns so use the plural.

In English there is no third person singular gender-neutral pronoun.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease Ping - TB infection (Minnesota investigation 2016- Present)

"The Minnesota State health officials are asking clinics to look out for tuberculosis symptoms
in college-aged individuals who have spent time at the university (Minnesota State University, Mankato) since August 2016."

" 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..."

[null and void]

Well, there is “it”, but not a third person singular gender-neutral pronoun for humans...

[Afterguard]

“Because now Americans want to try out the in-bred, tribal, low-IQ, illiterate, 3rd world Somali way”

Minnesotans are overrun with Somali’s in the Twin Cities area. not so “Minnesota Nice” anymore

[jackibutterfly]

"It would be nice to know from which country the international student is from. My parents live there and several of their friends and fellow church members work there. "

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.