'I'll be your Huckleberry'
Posted on 05/31/2007 8:59:30 PM PDT by gonzo
ARLINGTON - Four Bowie High School students have tested positive for tuberculosis after they were exposed to another Bowie student who had contracted the disease, a Tarrant County Public Health Department official said Thursday...
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First the moron-newlywed Edwards-wannabe, and now this.
I guess 'TB' is the next thing that's Bushs' fault.
I’m just guessing here, but I’ll wager that someone involved has questionable legal status.
Bring back small pox and the Spanish Flu!
TB is the next in a long line of SARS, bird flu, any flu, ...
Before jumping the gun, is it the same strain as “TB Man?”
People testing positive for TB is not unheard of, my cousin tested positive a year ago and she is a school teacher...nowhere near Atlanta or Arlington.
T.B. or not T.B? That is the congestion.
Are we doomed?
Very *cough* funny...
that’s funny, in a dark, twisted way
it’s free trade, nafta
This time I would say it is Bush’s fault. The rise in TB rates correlates with the rise in illegal immigrants.
The illegals are bringing it from their countries.
Legal aliens have to go through all sorts of health screenings.
It’s just a real serious consequence of illegal immigration.
I’m glad the MSM is hopping on this. They should.
Wonder what is known about the incidence of TB in Old Mexico.
It is Bush’s fault for doing nothing about illegal immigration.
I know I say LOL way too much on the internet but I am really.
Does the recent spate of TB stories remind anyone of the shark attack mania of summer 2001?
Sandy, Have you been waiting all your life to use that pun .
Here's some data for Mexican born in the US. I posted this on another thread and now I'm known as AuntBIGOT. But what the heck, here it is anyway.
Results: For the period from 1993 through 2001, of the 16 223 TB cases reported for Mexican-born persons in the United States, 12 450 of them (76.7%) were reported by Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
In those four border states overall in 2001, tuberculosis case rates for Mexican-born persons were 5.0 times as high as the rates for persons born in the United States; those four states have 23 counties that directly border on Mexico, and the ratio in those counties was 5.8. HIV seropositivity, drug and alcohol use, unemployment, and incarceration were significantly less likely to be reported in Mexican-born TB patients from the four border states and the nonborder states than in patients born in the United States from the four border states (P < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that among pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were 18–64 years of age and residing in the four border states, the Mexican-born patients were 3.6 times as likely as the United States-born patients were to have resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampin (i. e., to have multidrug-resistant TB) and twice as likely to have isoniazid resistance.
Mexican-born TB patients from the four border states and the nonborder states were significantly more likely to have moved or to be lost to follow-up than were the TB patients born in the United States from the four border states (P < 0.001Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/paho/pajph/2004/00000016/00000001/art00004
I have no questions a about the legal status.
'I'll be your Huckleberry'
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