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Tuberculosis confirmed at high school in Sugar Land, Fort Bend ISD officials say
mysa ^ | May 8, 2018 | Dana Burke

Posted on 05/08/2018 8:10:38 AM PDT by bgill

Officials in Fort Bend County are taking action to ensure a case of active tuberculosis does not spread to others at Sugar Land's Kempner High School, Fort Bend ISD said in a letter to parents. "Because significant exposure to TB is required in order to develop an infection, and based on the level of interaction with the individual, the health department has identified a small group of students and staff who will require testing," the letter states. Testing is conducted through the Fort Bend County Health and Human Services Department at no cost to the individuals, said Yaneth Calderon, spokeswoman for the department. Any required treatment will also be conducted through the health department, unless patients choose to use their private providers.

(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: immigration; tb; texas; tuberculosis
Reporting last week more up ticks of diseases in the Houston, TX area: "The Chronicle reported on the increase in typhus earlier this year. The number of cases jumped from 30 in 2003 to 364 in 2016, 32 of them in Harris County, health officials said. The new alert says the state expects the final 2017 typhus count will exceed 400. Typhus, a potentially fatal disease transmitted by fleas, was thought to be all but eradicated in most of the United States but has been making a comeback in Texas for reasons researchers don't know. https://www.mysanantonio.com/local/prognosis/article/Texas-officials-issue-alert-about-typhus-threat-12398813.php

Gee, can't imagine why but do the fleas speak Spanish?

1 posted on 05/08/2018 8:10:39 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Mostly Asians and Latins.

Been some serious white flight from that area in the past decade.


2 posted on 05/08/2018 8:16:31 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: bgill

Diversity is our strength!
/s


3 posted on 05/08/2018 8:17:36 AM PDT by GnuThere
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4 posted on 05/08/2018 8:17:45 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Knobs on standard shift consoles!,


5 posted on 05/08/2018 8:20:21 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? @BrowardSheriff? DO SOMETHING!!)
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“-————making a comeback in Texas for reasons researchers don’t know.”

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Where did they get these “researchers”-——Somalia?

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6 posted on 05/08/2018 8:24:17 AM PDT by Mears
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More than just flea-bite-us..

https://www.britannica.com/science/typhus

Epidemic typhus has also been called camp fever, jail fever, and war fever, names that suggest overcrowding, underwashing, and lowered standards of living. It is caused by the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii and is conveyed from person to person by the body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus.


7 posted on 05/08/2018 8:26:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Enjoy the diversity and diseases of 3rd world sh#thole countries...we don’t need borders.


8 posted on 05/08/2018 8:27:09 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

WOAH! Wrong post!


9 posted on 05/08/2018 8:29:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Typhus ... has been making a comeback in Texas for reasons researchers don't know
10 posted on 05/08/2018 8:37:45 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: bgill

Which form of TB? If it’s MDR or XDR, that’s of even more concern.


11 posted on 05/08/2018 8:55:19 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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TB outbreaks happen every couple of years in our local schools. the school system and local media publish just enough information so people will go get tested, but play hush-hush with details of how and who started the outbreaks, so you know damn good and well they’re deliberately covering up for the diseased illegal aliens that imported the diseases ...


12 posted on 05/08/2018 8:56:54 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: oh8eleven

Same song, different verse at my years old tagline.


13 posted on 05/08/2018 9:13:53 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

I’m sitting here laughing at the mis-information and clear deceit in these declarations. Fort Bend County and particularly SugarLand are run by realtors and promoters. They gerrymander school districts to promote and pump up particular subdivisions. They whitewash all negative press. I called it Stepford on the Brazos when we lived there.

1. Fort Bend ISD said in a letter to parents. “Because significant exposure to TB is required in order to develop an infection, and based on the level of interaction with the individual, the health department has identified a small group of students and staff who will require testing,” the letter states. I’m dubious of this statement. I had employees exposed to TB on a flight from W. Africa. The majority tested positive. The employees were in the front of the plane and the carrier was in the back. Kudos to CDC for getting on top of the exposure and carrier.
2. “making a comeback in Texas for reasons researchers don’t know” This is laughable and pitiful at the same time. It comes from the same places lice and scabies come from. Unclean living conditions.

Brought to you by our third world neighbors who have invaded our country.


14 posted on 05/08/2018 10:29:33 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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