Posted on 12/27/2009 4:58:12 AM PST by blueyon
LANTANA, Florida — It started with a cough, a cool-season hack that refused to go away.
Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., Juarez felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood.
I'm dying, he told himself, "because when you cough blood, it's something really bad."
It was really bad, and not just for him.
Doctors say Juarez's incessant hack was a sign of what they have both dreaded and expected for years — this country's first case of a contagious, aggressive, especially drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. The Associated Press learned of his case, which until now has not been made public, as part of a six-month look at the soaring global challenge of drug resistance.
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This little nugget buried deep in the article has **MAJOR** significance for everyone!
HIV infected people are most likely to be HIV infected because they are actively gay or IV drug abusers. They live life-styles that put them and others in extreme risk of spreading communicable disease ( TB, parasites, dysentery, MRSA infections, various types of pneumonias,..etc.) among their own community and then out to the larger population as a whole.
Active homosexuals and IV drug abusers are NOT making libertarian life-style choices that have consequences only for them. Their life-stlye choices cause pain, illness, and expenditures of money that are borne by others.
Immune compromised people are walking petri dishes waiting for infection. However...Unlike most other immune compromised people, HIV infected and active homosexuals (with their huge number of partners) live a life that actively seeks to have that petri dish inoculated with communicable diseases that others in the community can and **DO** get!
Remember that during the holidays when your actively practicing homosexual cousin shows up for the New Year's party.
“...But it’s RAAAAACCCCISSST to make sure the public is safe” - Janet Napolitano
so do you want diseased immigrants
“No more Immigrants from Middle East, Africa and South America.”
Yeah, we need more from China.
For me:
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For the men:
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My Russian friend told me that at one point in the USSR, people with this type of TB were actually killed —with a pistol.
Before the 1980s people were screened before they were allowed in. If someone had a public disease, TB and other infectious diseases they were not allowed...then along came a self inflicted disease named HIV-AIDS it became a political football and today we suffer for it. Being PC is not allway correct or good for the country.
Supposedly they screen refugees and immigrants but it would not surprise me if that was not enforced properly.
well, from what article said, he spent 2 years in a sanatorium and his is now inactive.
Years ago, my pediatrician was doing a TB screening. My son tested positive and x-ray revealed that he had been exposed to (regular) TB and had to have meds and tests for 6 months. He had never traveled abroad. We took him to an infection control specialist—was told back then that with all the travel abroad, my son could have picked it up at our local shopping mall, grocery store, etc. as immigrants living here return home to visit family in the “old country” and then bring TB back with them. Our docotor mentioned India as a hotbed for it, but I am sure there are many countries....
I agree that we need to do more thorough screening of immigrants and people returning from extended stays in developing countries.
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