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Dude, it’s a bacterium.
One can only hope that each and every Liberal politician directly experiences a non-treatable form of "Diversity!"
Ain’t multiculturalism grand?
I am just now recovering from a bronchial and sinus infection. The first two antibiotics seemed to have no effect. Finally one called Doxycyline or something similar seems to have worked.
Soon there may not be one which does.
Yeah, let’s let illegal aliens come in and re-introduce diseases that were erradicated in the U.S. years ago. maybe all of the Congresspeople should send their children to school with the illegal aliens so they could catch some of the diversity.
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“dispatched scientists to Los Angeles to help local health officials figure out why the disease is spreading and how to stop it.”
Illegal aliens. Close the damned borders.
off sarcasm.
Open Borders bites back
“Most of the patients are male and about 20% are also HIV positive...”
A lot of the resurgence of TB can be traced to AIDS patients, who make an ideal Petri dish for disease.
On the plus side, almost all the TB appearing in America is the “ordinary” kind, which you can tell from the response.
If it is drug resistant (DR-TB), it will still get a normal response. But multiple drug resistant (MDR-TB) means being institutionalized in quarantine with a high probability of death. Extremely drug resistant (XDR-TB) means that mortality approaches 100%, and quarantined until death.
Twice now there have been outbreaks of totally drug resistant (TDR-TB), but everyone infected died too quickly for it to spread beyond a limited number of people.
Used to be immigrants were screened before they could join the general population.. but we are so much more intelligent now..we just let them wander our streets with all their 3rd world diseases..
Bump!
2/22/13
“Thousands May Have Been Exposed To Deadly TB Epidemic Downtown”