Tuberculosis outbreak in downtown L.A. sparks federal effort

LA Times ^ | February 21, 2013

[shineon]

Public health officials have launched a new, coordinated effort to contain a persistent outbreak of tuberculosis in downtown L.A.’s skid row, including searching for more than 4,500 people who may have been exposed to the disease.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Uncontrolled borders tend toward the start of uncontrolled epidemics.

[Venturer]

Uncontrolled Borders and uncontrolled Homo’s.

[Iron Munro]

The transition to third world status is always fraught with peril.

[RetiredTexasVet]

4,500 homeless people ... shouldn’t be that hard to find ... just have the feds hang around supermarkets and low end liquor stores. Should be able to scoop them all up within two days.

[nascarnation]

Since Jan 2009, I don’t believe I’ve seen the phrase
“homeless population” in the MSM.

or
“McJobs”

or
“Recovery for Wall $treet but not Main Street”

interesting.....

[Sivad]

Beware........THE WALKING DEMS. [ :-()]

[Beowulf9]

*Things not to bring up when ‘talkin up’ amnesty bill...

[Spitzensparkin1]

"Uncontrolled borders tend toward the start of uncontrolled epidemics."

Yes, and this is being spread to every state with the vector being illegal aliens.

[dfwgator]

Spreading the diseases that Americans won’t.

[UCANSEE2]

"Public health officials have launched a new, coordinated effort to contain a persistent outbreak of tuberculosis in downtown L.A.’s skid row, including searching for more than 4,500 people who may have been exposed to the disease."

Yeah, and that's just how all those science fiction movies start out too.

[BipolarBob]

How terrible. Is this one of them sanctuary cities?

[BBell]

You left out this little gem:

jobless recovery

[Enterprise]

Not trying to spread panic, but if by now, 4,500 people have been exposed, what argument can they raise that those 4,500 people who have been exposed have not already exposed 45,000 other people?

[Gay State Conservative]

Refried beans will do that to ya I guess.

[dagogo redux]

Leprosy and Chagas disease next.

Was a microbiology nut as a kid, later majored in it, but went into another specialty after medical school. Still, in Casper, Wyoming of all places, I diagnosed an early case of leprosy from across the room just based on history and an early rash. Dermatologists and infectious disease guys were called in to prove me an idiot, which they did . . . . until the tests came back positive for leprosy. :)

Saw my share of TB, and a bit of leprosy in Hawaii and in other countries, and a nasty case of advanced Potts disease in a resident alien in rural Tennessee as well. Bad, bad stuff.

[Gay State Conservative]

And the really fun part is that the reemergence of TB in this country is,all too often,the drug resistance variety.And it's all courtesy of our neighbors to the south,perverts and junkies.

[Enterprise]

It may or may not exactly be Sanctuary, but 4,500 homeless people are by definition, Obama voters. If there is panic, it is because those Obama voters will infect a whole lot of OTHER Obama voters.

[Enterprise]

A definition of Obama voters, courtesy of Gay State Conservative:

"And it's all courtesy of our neighbors to the south, perverts and junkies."

[BooBoo1000]

Let’s hope they never find a cure.Hasta La Vista Baby