Posted on 05/09/2024 4:48:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The City Council of Long Beach, California has authorized a public health emergency in response to a local outbreak of tuberculosis.
The city's health officer, Dr. Anissa Davis, declared the emergency last week, after its health department detected 14 tuberculosis cases at a single-room occupancy hotel. The City Council vote on Tuesday night served as the final approval for the declaration.
Nine tuberculosis patients have been hospitalized and one has died, according to the health department. As of Monday, about 175 people had been exposed to tuberculosis as a result of the outbreak.
In a news release last week, the department said that “the population at risk in this outbreak has significant barriers to care including homelessness and housing insecurity, mental illness, substance use and serious medical comorbidities.”
The department added that it is testing people who were exposed. No new cases have been reported since last week.
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Illegals from third world countries bringing gifts.
Long Beach, CA!
That’s easy. It’s caused by the U.S. government.
Disease and crime, gifts that keep on giving from our nation”s idiotic open borders policy. Let’s Go Brandon!
I’m sure that, in the minds of liberals, a TB epidemic is a small price to pay for diversity.
Good LORD. When I was an RN we never used the TB units. I think 2 cases in over 20 years.
We had trailers for TB testing in every shopping center in America when I was growing up, we beat it, now the strain going around can’t be cured with what we used before.
“Due to patient privacy laws, the name of the hotel can’t be released, but people who were staying there could have been exposed to the disease.
Privacy outways public safety ...
Didn't seem to apply to "contact tracing" with the CoupFlu.
It’s 1900 all over again…..Just call it consumption, most people won’t know what it is.
Yes, Dr Davis looks like you thought she would.
Where did it come from?
We man never know.
FReepers were calling this four years ago
no surprises here
White supremacists again.
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