Posted on 11/10/2011 1:18:11 PM PST by Hunton Peck
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.
The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
“Over the last three months were have been two persons who have resided in this facility who have been diagnosed with confirmed or suspected infectious tuberculosis (TB),” said Fulton County Services Director Matthew McKenna in a written statement to CBS Atlanta. “One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition. All person(s) identified as positive have begun treatment and are being monitored to ensure that medication is taken as directed.”
The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has indicated that two cases have been made public knowledge to the group, the first coming from someone who contracted the disease in September. The identities of the people who have contracted the disease, however, have not been disclosed by the health department to this point.
The news of the tuberculosis contractions could force Occupy Atlanta to move once again. WGCL reports that more than 100 protesters made the move to the homeless shelter Oct. 30 after Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed evicted Occupy Atlanta from Woodruff Park, citing that they were no longer allowed to camp out overnight. The homeless shelter is also facing an eviction of its own from the city.
Messages left by CBS Atlanta for Occupy Atlanta and the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless were not immediately returned.
When I contracted atypical TB, 40 years ago, I was forced into a locked ward at Milwaukee County General. 9 months! They finally figured out that it was atypical, non-contagious, and that I probably had gotten it when I split up my overcrowded Lily bed.
Imagine that!
Abandon sanitation, and proper diet, and disease breaks out.
What will they think up next?
If its noncontagious, how did you get it from your lily bed?
It’s not contagious human to human.
When I was a kid visiting the family farm, we’d take care of the diseased animals with a .22 or whack them in the head with a board. It’s just what you do.
:-))
Partial list of crimes. 189 so far on the Big Government site.
These Occupy camps could actually be very useful in terms of providing good test sites for the spread of infectious diseases and parasites. I wonder if the CDC or any of the university medical programs are collecting data. It seems like a waste if they are not.
We probably haven't had such good conditions in the USA to study infectious diseases and vermin since the Civil War.
Sounds like a campaign issue to me.
My biological father(I’m adopted),died from tuberculosis.
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