Posted on 05/07/2013 10:32:21 AM PDT by Enza Ferreri
"The increase in the rate of TB in the UK, which contrasts with most other European countries, may, at least in part, be due to the fact that a high proportion of UK cases occur in the foreign-born, coupled with a comparatively large number of foreign nationals from countries with a very high incidence of TB."
Who wrote that? One of the far-right "nazi grouplets", as the Marxist site Searchlight would call them? A racist, a xenophobe?
No, it is the conclusion of a scientific study published in the world's most authoritative database of peer-reviewed medical research, the US National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health.
The study in question is called "The impact of immigration on tuberculosis rates in the United Kingdom compared with other European countries", and these are its results:
TB notification rates increased in only three of the 21 countries [under investigation]: the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden. In all three countries, approximately three quarters of cases were foreign-born. The UK had the third highest number of foreign nationals overall, but the highest number from a country with a TB incidence > or =250 cases/100000 (219000, 13%). European countries with declining TB rates had varying patterns of migration, but did not generally receive migrants from very high-incidence countries and/or had a smaller proportion of their total TB cases in their migrant population.This was published in May 2009, but the trend, far from stopping or decreasing, has continued.
Another highly prestigious, historical medical publication, The Lancet, in 2010 printed a paper entitled "The white plague returns to London—with a vengeance" calling London "the tuberculosis capital of Europe", a claim repeated last week in another paper in the same major medical journal, titled "The ongoing problem of tuberculosis in the UK":
London has the highest overall rate of tuberculosis of any capital city in western Europe. Rates of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis have doubled in the UK over the past decade, and, although most developed countries have achieved sustained reductions in the number of cases, rates in the UK continue to rise.The paper is a comment on a new report from the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis, Drug-resistant tuberculosis: old disease—new threat, published 15 April. Among other things, the report says:
TB is the leading killer of people living with HIV/AIDS, accounting for one in four AIDS related deaths...There are almost 9,000 new cases of this deadly disease each year in the UK.In the UK, TB is a particular problem among people born abroad and hard to reach groups... [In the UK] The majority of the 81 new cases in 2011 (95%) were born in South Asia, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, with an additional six of these being the most extreme form of the disease (XDR).
Tuberculosis, especially drug-resistant, cases are on the rise in the world, and "the worldwide number of new cases (more than 9 million) is higher than at any other time in history" largely thanks to the spread of HIV: "Due to the devastating effect of HIV on susceptibility to tuberculosis".
This explains why, for example, South Africa has both the world's highest burden of HIV and the third highest burden of TB. Another country which has among the highest rates in the world of both TB and HIV and has a high rate of TB/HIV co-infection is Nigeria.
The resurgence of tuberculosis, which was once one of the world’s biggest killers, has led the World Health Organisation to declare it a global health emergency in 1993.
Two of the great idol totems of our time, unrestricted mass immigration from Third World countries to Europe and normalization of homosexuality, untouchable dogmas of progressivism and liberal rectitude, are thus taking us back to the 19th century.
TB in general....is increasing. After Gulf War I...I came back and got tested six months later...and had TB. We had a bunch of foreign cooks running the chow hall and I suspect that’s where I got it.
Whoa! That’s what they use to call “the consumption” in the old days. How did they treat it? You were you able to get rid of it?
Open your doors, ala USA, Britain and coax as many third world disease carriers that’s possible. Load up that Island nation with the scum of the earth.
TB is also becoming a growing problem here in the states, due to the illegal aliens. And it’s transmitted through the air. Frightening. This is a third world disease. And now we will have a third world healthcare system under 0bamacare to deal with it.
Human tribalism was probably an evolutionary development because it limited the spread of disease.
Very sorry to hear this. Have you been cured now?
My mother got tested for TB when she had a cough she couldn’t get rid of. When the doctor asked her where she worked she told him at city hall. he told her, that our city had the second highest TB rates in the state. We are also the 2nd most “diverse” city in the state with a 24% Non-Citizen population. Congratulations to us.
My mother got tested for TB when she had a cough she couldn’t get rid of. When the doctor asked her where she worked she told him at city hall. he told her, that our city had the second highest TB rates in the state. We are also the 2nd most “diverse” city in the state with a 24% Non-Citizen population. Congratulations to us.
Yup..ride the Underground during rush hour...world’s biggest petri dish..
TB is widespread in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet areas. So, how can this be racist to point out?
Celebrate Diversity!
You end up taking a pill each day for roughly six-to-eight months...with little to no alcohol in this period. It kinda kills the TB, but it’s always possible to come up as identified when they do the regular test, but it’s killed off at that point.
I asked the doc how many military guys were showing, and he just kinda admitted more than a dozen on base a year. So you figure all this middle eastern stuff adds up to this problem.
The doctor says my lungs looks like swiss cheese, estimating that half of my lungs have been eaten away.
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