Posted on 09/14/2011 1:10:09 PM PDT by george76
Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) are spreading at an alarming rate in Europe and will kill thousands unless health authorities halt the pandemic...
"TB is an old disease that never went away, and now it is evolving with a vengeance," said Zsuzsanna Jakab, the WHO's Regional Director for Europe...
TB is currently a worldwide pandemic that kills around 1.7 million people a year. The infection is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and destroys patients' lung tissue, causing them to cough up the bacteria, which then spreads through the air and can be inhaled by others.
Cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) -- where the infections are resistant to first-line and then second-line antibiotic treatments -- are spreading fast, with about 440,000 new patients every year around the world.
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Treating even normal TB is a long and unpleasant process, with patients needing to take a combination of powerful antibiotics for 6 months. Many patients fail to correctly complete the course of medicines, a factor which has fuelled a rise in drug-resistant forms of the disease.
Treatment regimes for MDR-TB and XDR-TB can stretch into two or more years, costing up to $16,000 in drugs alone and up to $200,000 to $300,000 per patient if isolation hospital costs, medical care and other resources are taken into account.
Experts say around 7 percent of patients with straightforward TB die, and that death rate rises to around 50 percent of patients with drug-resistant forms.
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“Our Diversity Is Our Strength!”
This physician knows where the disease comes from, but don’t expect him to address it with a real plan to stop the spread.
That plan would involve a quarantine.
As you state, ‘this Diversity stuff’ will be the death of the West, and in some instances, literally.
We had tuberculosis pretty well stamped out in the U. S. It’s back. It’s not as bad as Europe, but then we shouldn’t have it here at all.
Our leaders break every rule in the book that would keep this nation safe. They do it on a number of issues.
HIV carrying homos and normal folks are responsible for many of the resistant strains that continue to emerge and take advantage of a compromised immune system.
Last week it was a bomber in a truck.
This week it is TB.
Wolf, wolf, wolf.
Who cares.
I imagine there are a lot of exotic diseases entering the country. I just read a report of of an American case of "monkey pox" in 2003. Leprosy is back I personally have seen that. Plus as far back as the 1990's in the Alvarado district of Los Angeles one would see trash and dirty diapers on the side of the road. The filth was coupled with large rats running about. I saw that. I keep waiting for the return of the plague and I'm only half kidding!
Nails it.
Plague never left New Mexico. We have cases every year.
It’s it’s CONTAGION
A sea of actors in rubber suits looking stern acting sincere
I hear ya. I’ve seen it too.
With the coming Obamacare death panel review anyone here who catches this, is as good as dead.
Scary stuff.
Scary in another way — so-called journalists who write so poorly:
The infection is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and destroys patients’ lung tissue, causing them to cough up the bacteria, which then spreads through the air and can be inhaled by others.
Squirrels or Prairie Dogs as the flea carriers?
Both, but usually the link to people is an outdoor cat who either kills or finds an infected rodent. Ground squirrels seem to be most likely, although the tree residing Abert squirrels don’t seem to be a problem.
We have an occasional case out here in California. The cases usually arise out of the Eastern Sierras and squirrels are the flea carriers.
It’s pretty easy to avoid in the more rural areas, if it takes hold in the cities... that’s another matter.
I wonder if Sanitariums will make a comeback with this ! I know there is an old anti-biotic which is strychnine even with its side effects that can be used.
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