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When I saw the headline, I thought this article was about communism.
My great great grandparents in Ysbty Ystwyth, Wales both succumbed to TB. My great grandfather and his sisters were too young to retain legal ownership of the family home. They were taken in by "Uncle Dave" in Lllanfihangel-y-Creuddyn until they opted to emigrate to the U.S. at their own expense. My great grandfather signed on as "ship's company" on a vessel leaving Liverpool. On arrival to the USA, he reconnected with his future wife in Pittsburgh and served in the Union army from 1863 to 1865.
Snip: 1,077 individuals with consumption (tuberculosis) were enrolled to participate in the study conducted by physicians at the Hospital for Consumption, Chelsea…
Results from the study revealed that between the two groups, improvement rates were similar, the disease was stabilized in 18% of participants who received cod liver oil, in comparison with only 6% of participants in the control group. In the control group deterioration or death occurred in 33% of patients compared with 19% of patients given cod liver oil.
Majority of new HIV,TB, hepatitis B cases found in immigrants (Britain)
Snip: And, almost two-thirds of newly diagnosed cases of HIV and 80 per cent of hepatitis B infected blood donors in 2010 were born abroad, says the report which adds that 12 per cent of people living in Britain in 2010 were born abroad -- up from 8 per cent in 2001.
D3- 10,00 daily. My wife and I have been doing that for two and a half years. She is an elementary school teacher and used to bring home flu and colds 5-6 times a school year. We have had none of that since we started on the D3. I have started some of my friends to taking it and they all have ceased having the “normal” seasonal viruses. My daughter started it when she had a miserable flu and expected to be out of circ for a week. She megadosed once in the morning with the formula of 900 units per pound of body weight. She was fine by evening.
Is that pic from a TB ward? Because it reminds me of a photo I’ve seen from a story on the 1918 influenza. Just curious :-)
Trends in Tuberculosis, United States:
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/TBTrends.htm
World TB country index:
http://www.who.int/tb/country/data/profiles/en/index.html
I live fairly near a (still) isolated building that used to be a TB sanitarium way back when. It has a smokestack for the furnace used to burn all linens, mattresses and all other medical waste. And this was for “normal” TB.
Eventually it was converted to a children’s hospital, but before they did so, they gutted the building, leaving only a shell.
I’ll also note that it has special zoning, so that nothing can be built anywhere near it. I’m not even sure that the county (county island) is able to change its zoning. They did not kid around back then.
As far as MDR-TB goes, in western Europe it has a 60% mortality rate, with treatment that is not easy.
XDR-TB is a death sentence. The last major outbreak of that was in South Africa, with 51 of 52 dead within 25 days. If someone in the US is diagnosed with it, they will be put in a negative pressure isolation room, involuntarily, and when they die, all furniture in the room will be burned and every surface strongly bleached.
Likely with industrial strength sodium hypochlorite, that is dangerously caustic.
There were a lot of TB sanitariums out here in the days before effective drug therapies. National Jewish Health, probably the best respiratory hospital in the world, started as a TB sanitarium for indigents.