Posted on 09/03/2006 12:15:10 AM PDT by Marius3188
Whether it turns out to be TB, bird flu or some pox, the next pandemic may well be a drug-resistant form. Those who are naturally strong and resistant will live.
Many years ago, in the mid-70s. What's happened? Lemme guess: a 'turd-world nation' has taken it over?
Muzzies run all the kiosks and most of the other businesses inside the airport. The shoe shine guys are still all American, tho.
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf#search=%22Illegal%20Aliens%20and%20American%20%22
very good read
Are you sure you were not given the TB tine test?
This is not an inoculation, but is simply a test to see if you were exposed. I believe this is what the INS requires.
The CDC does not generally recommend the BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine for tuberculosis (TB).
Tuberculosis info from the CDC
BCG leaves a nice little scar. The TB-Tine test does not.
Actually, one of my kids doesn't have that bad of a scar from it either now that I think about it. The older generation generally sport a big ugly one on their shoulder.
"TB or Bird Flu. Which one will get me first"
Blam, neither one has a chance against you! :)
There is no inoculation against TB in the US. If your husband's sister had TB and you live in the states, you had a PPD test to see if you had been infected. The test provided no protection to becoming infected in the future.
The TB vaccine, BCG, is one of the world's most widely administered vaccines, but the US doesn't use it because it provides virtually zero protection other than for certain types of TB (e.g., TB meningitis) in infants and young children. No effective TB vaccine exists, although there are groups (AERAS, based in MD) working on one.
The tine test also hasn't been used in years, being replaced by the PPD. The PPD is meant to serve more as a screening tool than a diagnostic one. It doesn't differentiate between latent infection and active disease.
While it's true that TB is common in people with AIDS (a third of the world's population has a latent TB infection, which develops into active disease when HIV destroys immunity), having AIDS has nothing to do with developing drug resistance. Drug-restant TB (MDR-TB and now XDR-TB) is an entirely man-made phenomenon, caused when a patient doesn't complete an entire course of therapy with the standard regimen of drugs (a lot of drugs for a lot of months). This is caused by any number of things--prescribing too few drugs, unreliable drug supply, mismanagement of the case, patient doesn't take the drugs because he also happens to be starving and they can't be taken without food, etc. XDR-TB is a wake-up call to the consequences of not providing adequate TB control. The World Bank has identified TB control as one of the world's most cost-effective health interventions (a Bank project in China in the 1990s yielded an economic return of US$60 for every dollar invested), so there's no excuse.
Expect more media on this out of South Africa in the next week.
This isn't a border issue, plain and simple. You have to be smarter than that. It's a globalization issue. SARS spread in a matter of days not by immigrants, but by international travelers. In an era where you can travel virtually anywhere on the planet in a day or two, borders have nothing to do with it.
Apologies. I missed your first post.
That said, BCG doesn't work. One poster said it protects only about 50% of the time, but it's not even that. It doesn't confer any significant protective effects in adults. It's typically given in infancy and can, as I said before, protect against certain severe forms of TB disease in infants and young children, but that's about it. No effective vaccine for tuberculosis exists.
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