New TB threat: Global ties bring an ancient disease to Silicon Valley

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 4-20-08 | Mike Swift

[muggs]

Kimberly, I don’t know what part of Ohio you are in but have you seen this trash from the Cincinnati Enquirer
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

These is a page where you can comment on illegal aliens
http://frontier.cincinnati.com/comments/threadView.asp?threadid=582

[gitmo]

Techno,

The two side-by-side maps are VERY illuminating. Scary, too. NC has a lot of TB because we give away driver's licenses like condoms in a high school.

I'm going to bookmark your post for future reference. Thanks.

[gitmo]

When was the last time you had a TB test?

I got biannual TB tests for 20 years after working closely with primates. Think I'll start that up again.

[tongass kid]

To clarify your post about testing, demontrtating exposure via testing does not necessarily indicate that the person is infected, a carrier or contagious. Rather it indicated the need for further testing.

[tongass kid]

I should add, please do use the information posted on this topic to make a decision. Please see your doctor for information.

[Technoman]

L.A. Police Chief:

“If you don’t like it, leave the state.”

The good news is that LAPD Chief William Bratton and his department are being sued by Judicial Watch to put and end to Special Order 40

Activist says Special Order 40 has shackled L.A. police

[HiJinx]

Open Borders Disease Ping!

[BIGLOOK]

TB is airborne, not foodborne.

Yes, that's so. But all immigrants and food workers here are required to have the TB tine test prior to employment. There is a connection.

[TheLion]

TB sometimes takes years to become active in a person....we will probably get creamed down the road.

[neverdem]

But all immigrants and food workers here are required to have the TB tine test prior to employment. There is a connection.

I'm missing something. What makes food workers different from other workers that they get screened? I thought they stopped the TB tine test in favor of the PPD.

[BIGLOOK]

I'm way behind in the tests. Interesting catching up.

Years back I'd read of the raised potential for the spread of the TB infection in homeless sanctuaries. Spending a night wouldn't do it...but many nights in closed quarters raised the risk. This brings us to food workers in confined kitchen areas with higher temperatures and humidity, conditions that are more friendly to bacteria in the air.

Environment, time of exposure and of course, the backgrounds of the employees are factors.

[RSmithOpt]

And of course the US government and corporate America would never lie about test results, polls, performance, costs, the truth, would they?? /sarc

[SunkenCiv]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks.