Posted on 06/08/2005 11:55:02 PM PDT by USMale
A multidrug-resistant tuberculosis known as MDR-TB is persistent in California, primarily among its "foreign-born" population, and has serious financial implications for the state's public-health system, federal and state health officials said yesterday.
"Treatment for MDR-TB is very expensive -- ranging from $200,000 to $1.2 million per person, over an 18- to 24-month time period," said Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a press conference in the District yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TB-ping.
"The study did not categorize the "foreign-born" patients as illegal aliens, but says the patients in question characteristically did not complete standard TB treatment and were in the U.S. less than five years at the time of diagnosis. "
--Here is some more info from article.
Make the rich elitist liberals who live in Hollywood's finest mansions pay. Common Rosie O-Donnel, put your money where your big mouth is. pay for their driver's liciences too
"Bring us your tired, your poor, your emboldened masses infected with TB... The wretched refuse of all other shores... Send these, who work the system, no matter the cost to me... I empty my pockets and open my doors!"
A little history: TB was known as "Jew's disease 100 years ago. The highest concentration of TB sufferers in the US was on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the time.
BUMP
The 2004 TB rate was the lowest recorded in the United States since national reporting began in 1953. Blacks (8.3)and Asians(20.0) have a higher TB rate than Hispanics(7.5). Since 1993 the TB rate among those foreign born has declined 33.9%.
This is a non-story manipulated to inflame the trailer parks of America.
I don't know about that. TB is epidemic in places like the Phillipenes, Mexico, South America. LEGAL immigrants are screened, Illegals aren't, and we end up paying for them.
Damn aliens! We need a vaccine quick!
"The study did not categorize the "foreign-born" patients as illegal aliens."
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/0/f7429c8612e9e8da852567c10067bd16?OpenDocument
Is CDC covering up skyrocketing TB rate? Insiders say center trying to 'cook the books,' 'spin the numbers'
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43384 The CDC released a report today portraying a serious TB threat worldwide and a declining disease rate within the U.S. But the CDC, say insiders, is not coming clean on the increasing domestic threat, largely posed by dramatic population increases in recent years by illegal immigrants. More than one-third of the global population is infected with the tuberculosis bacterium, and TB disease remains one of the world's leading causes of disease and death, the CDC says. Each year, 8 million people become ill with TB, and 2 million people die from the disease. In 2004, a total of 14,511 TB cases were reported in the U.S. The overall TB case rate – 4.9 per 100,000 persons – was the lowest rate ever recorded since reporting began in 1953. However, the decline in the case rate from 2003 to 2004 was one of the smallest in more than a decade (3.3 percent compared with an average of 6.8 percent per year), the CDC acknowledged. (so in effect, the infection rate is growing). The agency also said that "despite the nationwide downward trend, TB continues to exact a severe toll on many U.S. communities. Seven states now bear more than half the total burden of TB disease in the U.S. California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas account for 59.9 percent of the national case total. The toll continues to be greatest among minority and foreign-born individuals, who consistently have higher rates of TB disease. But CDC sources say the report is a reflection of "political correctness" inside the agency – a political effort to whitewash what some health officials see as an alarming new threat of TB's spread largely by illegal foreign immigrants. "When you acknowledge, as the CDC has, that one-third of the world's population is carrying this bacterium and you admit that we have some 20 million foreigners inside this country largely unaccounted for, you begin to understand the threat," said one G2 Bulletin source. "It's serious. And the facts are being withheld from the American people because of political correctness toward the question of illegal immigration."
Whooping Cough Outbreak
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419360/posts
Is CDC covering up skyrocketing TB rate? Insiders say center trying to 'cook the books,' 'spin the numbers'
The CDC released a report today portraying a serious TB threat worldwide and a declining disease rate within the U.S. But the CDC, say insiders, is not coming clean on the increasing domestic threat, largely posed by dramatic population increases in recent years by illegal immigrants.
More than one-third of the global population is infected with the tuberculosis bacterium, and TB disease remains one of the world's leading causes of disease and death, the CDC says. Each year, 8 million people become ill with TB, and 2 million people die from the disease.
In fact, next Thursday, March 24, is World TB Day, marking the date in 1882 that scientist Robert Koch announced his discovery of the TB bacterium. The World Health Organization now uses the annual day as an international call to action against the disease.
The CDC report emphasized the latest national surveillance data show a significant, but slowing, decline in the case rate of TB. In 2004, a total of 14,511 TB cases were reported in the U.S. The overall TB case rate – 4.9 per 100,000 persons – was the lowest rate ever recorded since reporting began in 1953. However, the decline in the case rate from 2003 to 2004 was one of the smallest in more than a decade (3.3 percent compared with an average of 6.8 percent per year), the CDC acknowledged.
The agency also said that "despite the nationwide downward trend, TB continues to exact a severe toll on many U.S. communities. Seven states now bear more than half the total burden of TB disease in the U.S. California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas account for 59.9 percent of the national case total. The toll continues to be greatest among minority and foreign-born individuals, who consistently have higher rates of TB disease.
But CDC sources say the report is a reflection of "political correctness" inside the agency – a political effort to whitewash what some health officials see as an alarming new threat of TB's spread largely by illegal foreign immigrants.
"When you acknowledge, as the CDC has, that one-third of the world's population is carrying this bacterium and you admit that we have some 20 million foreigners inside this country largely unaccounted for, you begin to understand the threat," said one G2 Bulletin source. "It's serious. And the facts are being withheld from the American people because of political correctness toward the question of illegal immigration."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43384
Number of Measles Cases Increases
June 8, 2005, 06:59 PM
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Isn't that nice of you to be such a jerk. There is nothing wrong with people living in mobile homes and for you to suggest otherwise is an elitist, ignorant thing to say. They probably have a better home and a better life than you do.
But CDC sources say the report is a reflection of "political correctness" inside the agency – a political effort to whitewash what some health officials see as an alarming new threat of TB's spread largely by illegal foreign immigrants.
"When you acknowledge, as the CDC has, that one-third of the world's population is carrying this bacterium and you admit that we have some 20 million foreigners inside this country largely unaccounted for, you begin to understand the threat," said one G2 Bulletin source. "It's serious. And the facts are being withheld from the American people because of political correctness toward the question of illegal immigration."
What does that say?
Radio host Michael Savage, who also has a PhD in epidemiology from Berkeley, has been warning about this for decades. In fact, it is one of the principal reasons he got into radio in the first place, with a focus against unrestricted immigration.
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