[DAVEY CROCKETT]

FYI

Newcomers change face of state's TB patients
Ten years ago, foreign-born residents made up 5 percent of ailing Georgians. Now they account for 28 percent.

By M.A.J. McKENNA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/21/04


A long-standing Georgia health problem, tuberculosis, is taking on new complexity as metro Atlanta becomes a magnet for refugees and immigrants, both legal and undocumented.

TB, the "white plague" that once killed one of every 10 Europeans, has never been beaten back in Georgia: The state's rate of cases remains persistently above the national average.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/atlanta_world/0404/21tb.html

[Myrddin]

TB killed my great-great grandparents. GG-grandfather died at age 33 (1842). GG-grandmother succumbed in 1851. All the kids were still minors, so they lost title to the family home in Ysbty Ystwyth, Wales.

When I was researching my family history in the cemeteries at Ysbty Ystwyth and Llanfihangel y Creddyn, I saw whole families that died in the space of a week. The oldest readable headstones for my family in Llanfihangel y Creuddyn date to around 1450. Older stones are too weathered to read anymore.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Where do you think we are now?

"Great Nations rise and fall. The people go
from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage."

-Author unverified, often attributed to Disraeli