Reference; http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_its-deadly-a-tdr-tb-patient-on-the-loose_1636131 "Even as two cases of Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) have been detected in Bangalore, one of the patients is missing. This poses a grave threat of rapidly spreading the deadliest strain of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes the disease." WE should assume this reporting, and the subsequent problems, are only the tip of the iceberg!! It is really amazing how vulnerable life is on Earth...
"A 56-year-old man has been missing for two weeks as he has not turned up at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Chest Diseases (RGICD) for treatment and may be a cause of concern in the city. TB can spread fast. A person with TB, if not treated, can spread it to 10 other people around him, on average, said Shashidhar Buggi, director of SDS Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Hospital and RGICD. Now, this patient is like a ticking time-bomb. And nobody is coming forward to inform the authorities about his whereabouts, or if he has died." I can't perform the math, but if this guy can easily spread his TB to 10 other people, I suspect this can be tantamount to how fast certain emails today can communicate with millions of people...in a matter of hours and days!
Could end bad. Luckily unemployment is high enough that we'll have enough people who can stay at home to help sustain our population.
Signs and symptoms of active TB include: Cough Unexplained weight loss Fatigue Fever Night sweats Chills Loss of appetite What organs are affected? Tuberculosis usually attacks your lungs. Signs and symptoms of TB of the lungs include: Coughing that lasts three or more weeks Coughing up blood Chest pain, or pain with breathing or coughing But tuberculosis can also affect other parts of your body, including your kidneys, spine or brain. When TB occurs outside your lungs, symptoms vary according to the organs involved. For example, tuberculosis of the spine may give you back pain, and tuberculosis in your kidneys might cause blood in your urine.
You would have to be under the blackest cloud ever to catch TB. It ain't that easy. Sadly, being in unsanatority, crowded disease filled conditions like OWS helps and why it was being passed around in those filthy camps.
http://www.nature.com/news/totally-drug-resistant-tb-emerges-in-india-1.9797 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/tdr-tb-missing/ http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...ulosis-reaches-record-levels-report-says.html Some news updates...
Irrelevant. If you know anything about India you know the slums over there are riddled with drug resistant TB.
Why are you planning on going to Bangalore some time soon? Just go to India and look for an poor Indian man with an intractable cough. LOL. Gawd. The endless whining propaganda from the right is getting unbearable. Everything is a conspiracy.
It is very easy to catch TB. When it hits it spreads like wildfire. Especially in places like nursing homes.
And there are those who see nothing wrong w/illegals sneaking across the border ....... w/o a health check.
Millions of people come through our airports without a health check. Assuming you've ever left the country you realize you've sat for hours rebreathing the same air shared by possibly hundreds of people from all over the world... without a health check. A health check is not required for every VISA to America. What fantasy world are you living in?
We need to hand out needles so addicts can quit the habit of sharing and reusing needles, which spreads and develops terrible diseases like these. For the sake of a few dollars worth of needles we put out whole society at risk.
dude. Why do you have to make a snarky political remark IN EVERY THREAD? even in ones that don't have anything to do with America? its old. Its lame. And it makes you look like a smartass.
Yes this is common sense, but the Republicans would have a meltdown if you suggested that. Instead they want to go half way around the world to chase down one Indian guy with TB in a slum in Bangalore!
Alarming levels of DR-TB... Study Reveals Alarming Levels of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis August 29, 2012 - Alarming levels of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis have been found around the world. A new study says the findings signal an urgent need for improved testing and the development of better drugs to fight the deadly lung infection. See also: Gene-Swapping Soil Bacteria Harbor Antibiotic Resistance August 30, 2012: As drug-resistant infections become an increasingly serious threat worldwide, new research show the problem may be spreading right under our feet.
The WHO estimates that about 5 percent of the cases of this disease are multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB -- in other words, caused by bacteria that have developed resistance to two of the first-line tuberculosis drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin. Worse, as additional antibiotics are being thrown at the disease, forms that are even more resistant have begun to emerge. Because tuberculosis can easily be transmitted through droplets in the air -- as occurs when someone with the disease coughs -- the disease is a menace to public health. In 2010, 1.1 million people worldwide died from tuberculosis. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tuberculosis-drug-resistant-worldwide/story?id=17107153#.UEJR_sGPW3I
