Posted on 07/02/2014 1:08:10 PM PDT by Kevin in California
A California high school is at the center of a tuberculosis outbreak linked to an infectious student who tested positive for active TB in February, county health officials said Wednesday. Four more students at Grant Union High School in Sacramento have contracted active TB. Three related tuberculosis cases are considered an outbreak, Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Laura McCasland said.
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So an outbreak is 3 cases and this is 4 plus 2 more exposed and it is no big deal?
sure
This High school is 32% Hispanic 27% black 7 % white and 27% Asian with a few other ethnicities
wonder what group the affected fall into?
Well, maybe this is an old strain. My mother remembers fellow students having to go away to the Sanatorium with TB, back before antibiotics.
I was put in isolation for 2 weeks because the hospital thought I might have TB. From what I was told the test is not 100 percent accurate in catching the disease. They had to do a bronchoscope to verify that my infection was caused by something other than TB. That leaves me to wonder if they are catching all the individuals that might actually have it.
Consumption outbreak? What’s next? Catarrh? King’s Itch? Plague?
I forget, what century is this?
A recent issue of the CDC newsletter, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) said there is a rapid increase of TB in certain states. They carefully avoided using terms like “illegal aliens” and “border states,” but that’s exactly what they were saying between the lines.
What I don’t get is if these invaders are so dirt poor where do they get the money to pay the smugglers?
“The grippe.”
There could be diseases being brought in that our medical industry don’t know about. Lots of these diseases were eradicated before the current crop of doctors graduated med school. When obamacare really kicks in, there are going to be a lot of dead people.
I am starting to think the dimrats are facilitating this invasion because they got obamacare passed. Seems like their next logical step.
The smugglers are your U.S. Government, who’ve been aiding and abetting this invasion for 30 years.
Stimulus 1,2,3,4,.....
“I was put in isolation for 2 weeks because the hospital thought I might have TB. “
I was locked in the TB Ward at Milwaukee General for 9 months! Lost everything. Then they figured out it was A-Typical, not contagious, and that I’d probably gotten it gardening. Lots of strains of TB. And I’d gotten the vaccine at Kent State in ‘64. I recall the vaccine was administered by a “jet” type gadget, that blasted the vaccine through your skin. No needles.
“Catarrh?”
We’re already cursed with that snot Jimmah Catarrh!
You would think that they would start giving the vaccine at least to patients that they had to test for it like they do the one for pneumonia. It wasn’t even offered to me. I am sorry fhat happened to you. Here’s hoping you never have to face anything like that again.
Typically those who charter the services of smugglers are indebted to them for quite some time and depending on their age and gender, may be sold into the sex trade to pay off their debt. Otherwise, they are typically held hostage and forced to do some other labor, usually involving some illegal activity to pay off the debt. Or a family member here in the states pays it but this is rare as the fee can be many thousands of dollars.
These are all reasons why there are a good many who will not utilize such services and try to cross on their own, risking the dangers inherrent in crossing vast swaths of rough desert terrain with an inadequate food or water supply.
This all used to be the case before it became common knowledge we basically don’t have a border anymore. Now, people are literally just streaming in through physical breaks in the fence near populated areas and no one is stopping them.
So all the stories about people dying in the desert or sold into slavery are much more rare now. But that doesn’t make it any more “right” and certainly not more humanitarian. If anything the current situation dehumanizes them even more, putting a label of “cheap labor” on their backs as if that’s the only thing that gives them value. As a human being.
The entire situation is horrendous. And we have idiots in charge who want to “feel good” about themselves, as if that’s what’s important. Meanwhile nothing of substance is being done, to either correct the problem or even to treat the people like human beings worthy of dignity. The first step in doing that would be to tell them “no”, because for their own good, it’s best not come here.
Becaise now they are in danger of being relegated permanently, “legally” to the status of cheap labor. At least before there was hope of breaking free of that system, that class. Now the real “talk” of “immigration reform” is to make them all be legally cheap labor. A thoroughly degrading way to treat fellow human beings, and ultimately worse as there will be no escaping that newly created class. Besides the US of A isn’t supposed to have any classes of people. At least before the leftists got in charge.
Dangerous conditions at illegal alien camps... but it’s illegal to talk about?
By Bobby Eberle July 2, 2014 12:09 pm
I know Mexican Hospitals usedt o vaccinaqte for TB at birth, or if not born in a hsopital, recommended it for school age children. I looked, and they still have that policy. Ditto for Guatemala, and Honduras.
BTW, I used to work at a Community mental health clinic in my town of less than 20,000. We had 22 active cases of TB. The problem was that their case managers wouldn’t make sure their “clients” went to the Health Department every month for their meds, which they needed to take faithfully for a year to two years.
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