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To: Myrddin

TB (likely multiple drug resistant) will be spread in our schools by the illegal invaders.


I am not a doctor, but I’ve read that one problem with treating TB is that people stop taking the antibiotics after the symptoms go away. The expense and the bother are the reason, besides they feel just fine. Problem is hey still have TB and can spread it, but because they stopped treatment early, resistant strains of TB become more common.

Now do we think that illegal immigrants are going to stay the course of TB treatment over the six to nine months it takes to beat the disease?


14 posted on 07/18/2023 12:41:19 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
Non-compliance with treatment is definitely contributing to development of multiple drug resistant strains. I worked with TB in the lab in college. We grew it on a slant agar that looked like pistachio pudding (pale green). The colonies were a waxy yellow. In vivo, the TB organism becomes an intracellular infection. That makes it hard to get the antibiotic through the mammalian cell wall where it then must find a way through the waxy cell member of the TB organism.
20 posted on 07/18/2023 4:51:13 PM PDT by Myrddin
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