[FairOpinion]

Extreme measures for extreme diseases.

Anyone wonders how many lives could have been saved if they had the same approach to HIV AIDS when it first appeared?

[FairOpinion]

ping

[NRA2BFree]

People infected with a deadly, virtually untreatable new form of tuberculosis should be isolated and confined -- against their will, if necessary -- to prevent a "potentially explosive international health crisis," according to a group of Canadian and African scientists.

These harsh measures are justified given the "extreme risk" posed by an ongoing outbreak of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) in South Africa, they argue in today's edition of the medical journal Public Library of Science Medicine.

Africa? How about it coming up from Mexico? It's already been brought here. There was a woman from Mexico that came to Albuquerque, NM with it because she was going to die if she wasn't treated in the US. Our doctors at the University of New Mexico Hospital treated her and after one year, she was doing OK, but her treatment has to continue. The problem is that treatment for one woman with that TB cost the taxpayers of NM $250,000.00. That's a quarter of a million dollars for one person. It's a fact too. I can get the newspaper article to verify it if anyone wants to see it. It's on line. I checked it out a year or two ago when I read it in my local paper. Can you imagine if every state had 2 or 3 a year? Or perhaps an epidemic. It would bankrupt our health care system!!

[EEDUDE]

Being brought into the US from Mexico too.

[metmom]

"We're not saying put people in leper colonies," Ross Upshur,...

Why not? Slowly drowning in your own fluids in your lungs is not a nice way to go.

[TASMANIANRED]

If it was sexually transmitted they'd just recommend throwing money at it.

[vetvetdoug]

During the late 1940's those infected with TB were isolated from their families. Small houses were built outside the primary houses where the one infected with TB could live away from the family yet within earshot of them. These little one room abodes had a sink, a bed, and windows that would open up to allow ventilation. My Great Grandfather lived in one until he passed away. Folks back then did what they thought was best for the family and the community and used what knowledge they had about a disease. Why is it that today common sense has just went out the window and pc must be pervasive?

[metmom]

ping

[ChildOfThe60s]

The fact that anyone is even willing to talk out loud of quarantine is a scary red flag indicating just how bad this is. Quarantine is an extremely un PC subject.

[mewzilla]

From a couple of weeks ago...

Hundreds of Lubbock Residents Possibly Exposed to Tuberculosis

[SeeSalt]

The people of US is the most exposed to the TB due to the followings :
1.There is no anti TB vaccination program.
2.Huge traffic of "visitors" form geographical areas where TB is rampant(India, China, Mexico).
3.People with HIV/AIDS _ the most susceptible to acquire TB.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Another reason to build the fence along Mexico (illegal immigrants are bringing up several such diseases) and to get the bums off the streets (they are a haven of diseases that had been previously eradicated, or nearly eradicated).