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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| TB or not TB. It's TB. |
| 2014-07-04 |
| A California high school is at the center of a tuberculosis outbreak linked to an infectious student who tested positive for active TB in February, county health officials said Wednesday. Are they covered by Obumblecare? Four more students at Grant Union High School in Sacramento have contracted active TB. Three related tuberculosis cases are considered an outbreak, Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Laura McCasland said. If three is an outbreak how many is an epidemic? Four relatives and friends of the student who initially tested positive have also contracted active TB — bringing the total to nine known cases. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #4 that, scabies, lice, .... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-04 16:10 |
| #3 TB is rampant in Latin America. I can't help but wonder if that is why many of these DREAM ACT children coming north have been ushered into Federal installations. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-04 15:55 |
| #2 TB is largely a disease resulting from poverty. As the US continues to decline expect more of this. For now it's almost 100% imported, but with declining US wealth and the idiocy of politician run healthcare it will become endemic here. We'll also get plague, cholera and the rest, but TB is what will wind up killing us all. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-07-04 15:31 |
| #1 What is the epidemiology of this outbreak. How was the TB vectored. Were any of these students exposed as the result of illegal immigration? We have a school system of about 50K students. I am not aware of any TB in the student population. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-04 09:41 |