All other known diseases combined do not match it in death rates.
It is all around you, and the open border policies of our Government make you more vulnerable than you clearly believe is possible.
Illegal immigrants are infecting us regularly, every day, and the Government seems to not give a rat’s ass about it. Else they would do something more.
I love to make light of things, and I often do out here, but this is no joking matter.
I once attended a lecture by an archaeologist who was working a dig on the North Slope of Alaska. He had found the 14,000 year old skeletal remains of an adolescent male. The bones showed evidence of TB infection.
This disease has been around at least as long as homo sapiens and will probably outlast us.
I’m not an epidemiologist, but I believe the first shots over the bow on this came from Russia and Eastern Europe. I’m not sure it began there, but it is the source of a wide focus.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/273/5274/497
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I understand that TB is a serious issue and the immigration point is well taken. My issue, however, is with the hysteria ginned up by the 'doom and gloom' media. I have survived (along with most reading these boards) Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Killer Bees, Mad Cow, SARS, AIDS, Y2K, the oncoming ice age (1970s), Global Warming (present) and a plethora of other 'infearmation' campaigns perpetrated by the MSM. Hell, I think my mother even drove a Pinto when I was a kid. Todays media looks like it is being produced by Irwin Allen, of disaster film fame. I am so tired of the fear mongering that the media offers I think it may kill me!
Now there is a pandemic that needs addressing!