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Patients to be treated at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
Posted on 04/20/2008 9:20:48 AM PDT by Technoman
Call it one price of globalism.
Last year, tuberculosis increased in four of the Bay Area's five largest counties, and the San Jose area in 2006 had the highest TB rate of any large American metro area, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health. San Francisco, after an outbreak of TB among Latino day workers in the Mission district, has the highest TB rate of any...
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Links aren’t working. Maybe it’s my computer......
Maybe it’s my computer too.....
TB is airborne, not foodborne. What's your point besides McDonald's exploits illegal aliens?
I noticed when I was in Taipei that people who work around food are required to wear surgical masks.
I wish this idea would catch on here.
L.A. Police Chief:
“If you don’t like it, leave the state.”
Huh??
Very illuminating video. And scary too.
Technoman, your link worked for me, but the one from toldyou didn’t. Go figure. Thanks you guys.
I remember him saying that line more than once. He is under pressure for a job. the l.a. city council is La RAZA, and reconquista.
Call it what it is, the price of the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Chertoff/McCain/Kennedy/Graham/Newsome open borders amnesty agenda.
When in doubt, just go into Google News, then paste the article title. Sorry for the inconvenience. It’s woth the read.
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Patients to be treated at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
“One in three people worldwide are infected, and 1.7 million died last year, mostly in poor countries where people lack the access to detection and treatment available in the United States.”
What???!!! Can that be correct? One in three people worldwide are infected?
Our immigration policies and enforcement, or lack of same, are surely a sign of national insanity.
I’m in a very nice north suburb of Columbus, Ohio. There is not a single dine-in or fast-food restaurant in the area who’s kitchens are not full of non-English speaking Hispanics. ‘Cleverly’ the order takers and waiters are always caucasion. Whether or not TB can be spread through food, it can be spread to other American workers. AND, TB is not the only thing to be concerned about. The nature of the third-world culture these illegal workers come from does not lend itself to good hygiene, whether they be field pickers, meat processors, or the person who puts your burger together. I remember reading several articles about neighborhoods across the country having problems with illegals who won’t even use restrooms...if they urinate and defecate right on the streets and in yards, I doubt washing is their top priority.
“Many are not recent immigrants - two-thirds of Santa Clara County’s foreign-born cases have been in the United States for at least five years. In that sense, TB is a public health issue, not an immigration issue, heath officials say.”
A whole five years. Wow. Are they saying that those immigrants who’ve been here five years caught TB from native born American citizens?
With ‘thinking’ like that, we know that no solution is in sight within the public health bureaucracies.
When you are tested for TB, you first get a test to see if you have been *exposed* to TB. This means that you have the disease in you, and you can infect others, but it has not attacked you yet. If you test positive for exposure, you have to have a second test to see if the disease has started to attack you.
In either case, they now have to determine what *kind* of TB you have. Ordinary, drug resistant, or extremely drug resistant.
If you have just been exposed, you have to take a drug for about six months to kill off the infection. However, if the disease is attacking you, you have to take different drugs for perhaps a year and a half. This is if it is ordinary TB, which is still the most widespread.
If it is the resistant form of TB, you had better be under monitored care. If the extremely resistant TB, you will be kept incarcerated until you die or are cured.
Importantly, the assumption of how people are infected, by extended contact with an infected person, may be flawed. There are cases of mass exposure to the disease that have no clear connection.
As example, about a decade ago, almost half of the Phoenix Fire Department tested positive for exposure. But there didn’t seem to be anything they had in common. To be on the safe side, they discarded all their breathing equipment, even though they did not share it. However, the mystery was never solved.
Just a few decades ago, many states had a requirement for an annual TB test for public school teachers, as well as a chest X-Ray. It is not unreasonable to consider activating this, and other public health requirements, again.
When was the last time you had a TB test?
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