Posted on 08/07/2017 4:09:02 PM PDT by BackRoads775
A female employee at Fremont Middle School in Las Vegas died of tuberculosis in mid-July after potentially exposing more than 100 people to the highly contagious disease, school and public health officials said Monday. Ann Schiller, the school’s principal, sent a phone message to parents on July 11 saying that “an individual at our school” had recently been diagnosed with an active case of tuberculosis. It said that public health officials would contact families “within the next few days” if their kids needed to be tested. Lynn Row, the chief nurse for the Clark County School District, said she could not provide the victim’s name, title or even confirm that she worked at the school at 1100 E. St. Louis Ave., near Maryland Parkway.
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Maryland Parkway...N.Las Vegas...pretty much a Mexican no-go area.
I’ve always said the illegal aliens are bringing diseases that have been eradicated in the U.S. IMHO, it’s a deliberate biological attack on the U.S.
Winner, winner, but take a pass on the chicken dinner.
Thank you, OBAMA.
Mexicans and muslims.
But remember, correlation is not causation.
I’m surprised that homosexuals aren’t concerned about that; people with compromised immune systems are sitting ducks...
Immigrants are screened for TB...I had to get a TB Tine test and a chest X-ray and blood tests besides a complete medical examination from head to toe...
I knew I had to be disease free and healthy to immigrate...
At the Embassy they gave me a list of accepted doctors to visit...I think there were 3,4 names...I had to pay for all visit and tests myself...
Isnt it odd that the HealthCare King would give all those millions of ILLEGAL ALIENS a pass and grant them AMNESTY without ever requiring that they pass the same medical requirements demanded of IMMIGRANTS ???
But then IMMIGRANTS must be free from a criminal background also, and Obama fought to throw that out in favor of his pet MS-13 gang members...
“Yep or an ill foreign national that went undetected.”
Or it could have been one of those strains that’s resistant to all antibiotics. Now there’s something to worry about.
True. I used to work in a nursing home that was once a regional TB hospital back in the epidemic days. It was a 5 story building the top floor was the treatment rooms we used as storage. The 4th floor had active TB patients most were geriatrics. Maybe a dozen patients from the East Tennessee area. I had worked there several days before being told it was an active floor. But I was not in direct contact with patients as I worked maintenance. That was back in the mid 1980's. We'd get yearly test and all new employees had to be tested.
Really I think it would be a good idea to go back to something that worked which was Health Cards for food handlers and health care workers. It usually involved a skin test and X-Ray for TB and testing for STD's.
TB was never eradicated in the U.S. The cases dropped to rock bottom but even today are persons born in the USA say in the 1920's on who may have had TB as a kid or adult.
TB is never cured it is treated to where it became "Inactive". The person who had it was a carrier for life but as long as it was in an inactive state were no medical threat to anyone. But they must have yearly TB testing. Meaning the potential to become active is there if for example their immune system becomes weakened. TB was well under control in the USA due to testing and prompt treatment including involuntary if the person did not cooperate and most important making sure the patient took "ALL" of the medication until the contagious stage was ended.
The biggest risk foreign nationals bring TB wise in is where they have been diagnosed in the home country and partially treated meaning they did not take enough or all prescribed medication and thus the bug starts mutating a resistance to standard treatments and become a super bug.
Tagline correction/restore post. I don’t know what happened to it LOL.
How would you define “highly” contagious?
If not “highly” contagious, how about “very” contagious if you are living or working with someone who has active TB and does not know it or has not had proper treatment.That is the problem with all of our new “residents” ~ they often have not had proper treatment.
I have had quite a bit of experience with TB, and if someone coughs into their hand and then places their hand on a door knob or handle, it can be transmitted...
Two of my three kids tested positive on the skin tests...
With the one who tested positive that showed something on their x-ray, we went to an infectious disease specialist—top guy in the area...Even tho they were asymptomatic, we had to do this from a public health standpoint...admittance to school, etc. go to the specialist or the county health dept.
Kid had to be escorted up the back stairs to separate waiting room wearing a mask, etc. They treated it as very contagious...We still don’t know the source of the exposure as they had never traveled abroad to countries like India or Mexico where it is prevalent and there were not huge numbers of immigrants where we lived, tho some. Chest x-ray indicated they had had an something at one time, but got over it. At the time we were told they could have been exposed to it off a mall escalator, etc...At the time I did recall that they had had some wicked coughs. They had to go thru the 9 month treatment.
So someone who is a recent resident or recently went back “home” working in a school could easily transmit TB to a lot of people. Or could be someone like my kid who picked it up...
Takeaways:
I am not sure the medical community knows everything there is to know about TB as to how it is transmitted. Why? I have 3 kids and 2 tested positive on skin tests (oldest and youngest), oldest kid’s x-ray showed something, youngest did not. Middle child had no reaction on skin test. I, too, tested positive (had for years before)—tho latent as my x-rays are clear...not sure but years ago, docs thought I might have had exposure from grandmother who took care of me as a baby for a couple months. However, she would have been latent...as am I and docs today did not think I passed it to my kids. They say cannot be transmitted by latent carriers....Interesting stuff..
I hope TB is not becoming somewhat politicized by organizations like CDC and WHO—you know we need to be empathetic to the plight of HIV victims and refugees, Last thing we need is a move to lessen the fear of TB—especially since it poses more danger now than ever due to the drug resistant strains.
It may not be PC, but refugees and illegals are prime carriers :(
Was she a registered Democrat or a decent person?
My father contracted TB when I was in my teens, spent 6 months in a sanitarium, and lived another 40 years or so. I never contracted the disease, nor did my mom, my brother, or anyone my dad worked with. As far as I know, they never found out where he got it from.
2 men having anal sex and getting married..ho hum...
a lesbian shooting her "wife" in the face and killing her...ho hum....
an illegal allowed to work among others without being screened, which is very easy to do, ..ho hum...
Can't remember how this saying goes, but it fits our education today: “A country who is not taught to love itself cannot properly defend the ideology that released an avalanche of invention and productivity in the Industrial Revolution.”
This battle can only be won in university philosophy classes which teach what is a proper moral code, or why reason trumps feelings as proof of anything. Oh, read Objectivism by L Pekoff.
“I have had quite a bit of experience with TB-———”
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So have I,my father died from it when I was a child——yet my mother,brother,and I never contracted the disease.Neither did any other family members nor close friends or co-workers.
Contagious yes,highly contagious,no.
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Which variety of TB, I wonder....
UPDATE: CCSD says students should be safe at Fremont Middle School after death
Note the use of the conditional. And the fact that TB is not mentioned anywhere in the headline.
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