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.
Juarez’s strain — so-called extremely drug-resistant (XXDR) TB — has never before been seen in the U.S., according to Dr. David Ashkin, one of the nation’s leading experts on tuberculosis. XXDR tuberculosis is so rare that only a handful of other people in the world are thought to have had it.
“He is really the future,” Ashkin said. “This is the new class that people are not really talking too much about. These are the ones we really fear because I’m not sure how we treat them.”
found by Kim Hutchins
All TB is deadly. This one is particularly so, to rich Americans. Welcome to the real world.
Than, there is that pesky epidemiologist with “hateful” radio show who has predicted this exact type of event…
“Drug resistance” is an interesting term. The people who usually use this have their own forms of resistance. They are in a war mentality, bomb the invader, the virus, the bacteria, the fungus, with drugs. Problem is the surrounding cellscape doesn’t look too pretty after any war. The patient gets worse. They say “drug resistance” is the problem instead of saying the drugs are the problem or the lack of understanding on how to encourage cell replication, which heals from within. For example, I just had a cold. It’s been lingering, but I keep eating garbage foods over the holidays, sugar, and oily stuff, and cheese, etc. Today I made fresh fruit smoothie eating about a pound of fruit. I feel better already after 1 and 1/2 hours. If I go to the doctor they pump me full of drugs, then say I suffer from “drug resistance” when I don’t get well, and if I do get well, even if I know it’s from the fresh fruit, they say “the drug worked” and write that down in their log.
“I’m not sure how we treat them.” /// Alex, I’ll take Bed Rest and Hospice Care for $100.00”
@#2
Oh yes, Dr. Savage did predict this very thing years ago and he’s been right about it and MRSA and their links to the lack of medical screenings for those who wish to enter the USA.
We’re in for some real trouble if we don’t figure out ways to effectively introduce DOTS to the countries where TB is endemic and try to get more information out there about the dangerously long latency period of the disease.
The rate of TB infection is about 30% worldwide and it’s only increasing in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Here on the southwest border drug resistant TB has been a problem for a while. In Phoenix they’ve locked people up in isolation because it was so dangerous. It always surprised me that they droned on and on about swine flu nationally yet nary a peep about people being locked up for TB.
Don’t know how to treat it? Look up the word quarantine!
One day soon, we will have to revert to the old ways of preventing the spread of disease. And yes John, the government does have the power of quarantine… always has. The federal government may not traditionally have exercised it, but that does not prevent the states under Amendment 10 from doing it. And every state has quarantine powers.
#6. Swine what? Never heard of it….
So that’s what their gonna rename and market the Ukraine’s “hemorrhagic pneumonia” for “sale” here in the States, XXDR-TB
-Catchy.
Lets see reverse it and you have DRXX -Dr. Death? or in roman numerals – XXDR=480R (?) reduce that for the numerology crowd and you get 3.
that’s all i know off the top of my head for the odd stuff.
as for the bug..well, who was the last lab to get funding for weaponized TB? :s
-s
They once had to deal with a carrier of Typhoid, by locking her away. She refused to give up being a cook servant, for well to do families. Now we’ve sequestered suspected terrorists, on remote islands, to avoid the legal system that would demand proof of their crimes or intent. But we’ve no place to isolate dangerously contagious people? I suspect we actually do. But the govt. just isn’t bragging about it. And strange, that Hollywood has never thought to make a movie about the idea. Almost as if they’ve been told, NOT TO!
Anyway, now we know what the Global Warming and Swine Flu scares, might be covering up for. And isn’t it a great time to start the US census? I wonder if they’ll be telling census workers that they could catch TB, from visiting homes with the sickness present? And of course, the US Airline industry isn’t going to turn down any paying passengers. No matter how sick they are. Quarterly profits always out-weigh long term consequences of a national TB outbreak.
“Extremely drug-resistant (XXDR) TB Hits USA Shores” is kind of a deceptive title. It implies travel by ship, across the ocean. But that’s an outdated assumption. As most people don’t come to America by way of the ocean, anymore. It’s either by crossing the land borders (legally or illegally). Or arriving by jet plane. But I suppose the air travel industry encourages columnists to refrain from denigrating their business. By wording it like “Extremely drug-resistant (XXDR) TB Hits USA Airports!” That simply will not do, for major investment reasons. So blame it all on “the US shores” where hardly a sole is coming from anymore. Or are international cargo ships heavily manned with TB affected crewmen? And the US govt. chooses to ignore this too?
We need to control the border so we can screen for diseases like this. Dr. Savage did predict this, but he was called hateful.
Dude, I predicted this over 30 years ago but then so did everyone else who knew jack about biology. It was as hard as predicting sunrise.
I go with 4 and 7 but Bobo is way low on the cost of staying at one of these places. Anybody that works at one of these places is going to want hazardous duty pay because the odds are good they’re going to die.
I will note that quarantine doesn’t actually treat the patient. It can slow the spread of the disease.
I will also note that my Uncle Elmo used to say everyone in his family caught TB when young and died of it in their 40’s and 50’s.
My grandfather spent a few months in Nashville in isolation back in the 50’s because of this and I had a cousin who was on pills for while.
If this thing gets into the population it will play bleep with the cost of health care but then the seniors will all die which should help out with SS and might remove the need for term limits in Congress. ?8^(
BTW..
Broadband or tuned time-varied EM Pulses will any disease and leave the (mammalian) host completely unharmed.
No “profit” it in though. so only countries
less concerned with profit use this technology.
Stimulates bone growth too..
-old tech from the 1800’s
-s