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2007-05-04 Science & Technology

Virulent New Strain of TB Raising Fears of Pandemic

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "It's not right," Daniels said in a telephone interview. "I'm not a criminal."

That's right. You're a moron for not finishing your antibiotics. The world thanks you for your contributions, oh clueless one.

Posted by gorb 2007-05-04 04:12|| 2007-05-04 04:12|| Front Page Top

#2 It's not right," Daniels said in a telephone interview. "I'm not a criminal.

Stupidity is not a crime---nevertheless, it is a capital offense.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-05-04 08:08|| 2007-05-04 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Now if he had AIDS you could expect both the usual suspects and the MSM howling in righteous indignation about this right to spread death with a politically correct disease.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-04 09:26|| 2007-05-04 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not right," Daniels said in a telephone interview. "I'm not a criminal.

Perhaps not, but your voluntary incompetence makes you a threat to the public's welfare and that represents sufficient reason to confine you against your will.

Daniels said he bounced among friends' houses, partying and trying to ignore the bloody sputum he was coughing up. "I knew I was going to have to treat it, but I had other plans at that time," he said. "I didn't think it was a big deal. Now I know better."

Daniels acknowledged that he had visited a fast-food restaurant and stores in Phoenix without a mask but denied that he had stopped taking his medicine there. "That's a nasty lie," he said.

Whatever, your prior pattern of conduct demonstrates reckless disregard for how you endanger the lives of others. You should face criminal charges.

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Known formally as extensively drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB, the strain has been detected in 37 countries. It arises when the bacterium that causes TB mutates because antibiotics used to combat it are carelessly administered by poorly trained doctors or patients don't take their full course of medication.

This sounds like its going to hit Russia and the Muslim majority countries pretty hard. While I'm not fond of people dieing miserable deaths, there really needs to be a culling in both of these regions in order to neuter their threat levels. If it takes a TB plague, so be it. Africa, especially, needs the calming effect of massive population reduction. Again, I realize that the poorest will be hit hardest, but that is a historical fact anyway. I'd certainly rather that some other more benign method like birth control could create this effect, but whatever reduces the current spate of psychotic behavior in Russia, Muslim countries and Africa can only have beneficial results for the outside world.

I'm certainly hoping that Western nations will have the ~~self preservation instinct~~ intelligence to prohibit any medical aid for terrorist sponsoring nations.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-04 18:24|| 2007-05-04 18:24|| Front Page Top

#5 No different than saving the sub-prime lending...

Posted by 3dc 2007-05-04 22:24|| 2007-05-04 22:24|| Front Page Top

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