[Red Badger]

Minnesota?

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

[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.

[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.

[bgill]

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

[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..."

[pnz1]

Well they are testing students here at a HS in TN because another student has TB.

[43north]

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.

[centermass_socrates]

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).

[kosciusko51]

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