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| Global distribution of Tuberculosis. TB is endemic in countries in bright green, yellow, orange and red |
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| It is a safe bet that nearly every outbreak of TB in schools and nursing homes is due to a recent immigrant from a country where TB is endemic. In the case of the nursing homes, it is likely a worker. |
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| Many non-Western countries take pride in owning dogs that have not been spayed. Their dogs are projections of their machismo and virility. |
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| It is also a point of pride that their dogs can fend for themselves and are not "in prison" all day long. |
Just a reminder
"Some of you will die. But that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
The politicians who are fighting against the SAVE Act are the same ones who think it is peachy-keen to expose your school-aged children and senior citizens to medieval diseases and think that having a certain percentage of little, old ladies torn to death by feral dogs is an acceptable price to pay for their getting reelected.
I agree that accepting citizens from countries that have no - little vaccination is a likely cause of the rise of childhood diseases which were eradicated here in the U.S. These diseases did not just spring forward. But no one in MSM will speak of this possibility - it would feed hate of recent persons, some of whom have no blame.
ReplyDeleteWithin the past two weeks, two local counties have advertised that residents who capture feral dogs - cats can take them to animal control who will send them to a clinic to be spayed - neutrered. These animals will then be returned to area where they were found. This is funded by private donors who do not want to see animal populations rise too much. NOT OWNED PETS - ONLY FERALS !
That argument is disingenuous.
DeleteMSM gleefully reports when drivers are "under-the-influence" of alcohol even though most drivers who are DWI never kill anybody.
In at least my area of NH doesn't have feral dogs.
ReplyDeleteWe shoot them. I toss them into my 2 year compost pile.
Was interesting that when COVID shots were deemed mandatory or you lose your job Congress, their staff and even the US Postal Service (plus other "lucky groups") were NOT Required to take the RNA COVID shots.
So why should Illegals...err "undocumented welfare rats" be required to have basic Public Safety SHOTS like TB and such.
BTW a side note. Unlike South America, in Russia you have free treatments and TB shots available. Folks forget that the picture of Russia INCLUDE various "STANS" that are at best backwaters of Russia proper.
It is my impression that TB is rampant in indigent and alcoholic populations in Russia and Asia
ReplyDeleteLast time I checked my EMS Logbooks TB is rampant in American indigent and drug addled populations. Along with hepatitis and STDs. All treatable and mostly preventable.
DeleteAnd again, even in America we HAVE treatments and Shots BUT it's pretty hard to get indigent and drug addled populations to COMPLY.
When I was doing medical missions in South America TB was a real in your face problem and only the wealthy could get treatment.
Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Medina-Medina, who killed Sheridan Gorman in Chicago, has MDR-TB. Julio Cucul-Bol, the illegal Guatemalan alien who ran down and killed Katie Abraham in Urbana, has advanced AIDS.
ReplyDeleteAIDS and TB are synergistic. Why Russia has the 11th highest TB rate in the world. Both diseases are spread by migration, such as the turmoil in Russia and the former USSR during the 1990's. So is measles. Why Canada has more cases of measles than the U.S., despite much higher vaccination rates and a very public health compliant population.
Med noncompliance is a major driver of pharma resistant pathogens.
DeleteDruggies will sell pills to fund their next fix or are too bombed out to keep track of when to take them or where they put them down.
Yep, uncontrolled migration from countries that do not have public health shots and treatments are going to make America into a 3rd world country soon enough.
DeleteYou'd be amazed at what weird 3rd world diseases we've been getting here in the frozen tundra of NH the last two years. Can only marvel at what Mogadishu Minneapolis 2.0 and larger cities must be seeing.
If we ever get our nation back on a sane basis like a balanced budget and voter ID (might as well wish BIG) we HAVE to get back to the old school Immigration of Ellis Island. Must prove to be healthy AND a Job + Sponsor as not to be a burden on the state.
Agree about med noncompliance. But it's the rest of us that suffer from advanced superbugs...
Russian public health officers have made major inroads against TB with their "Zoom Observation" of medication consumption.
DeleteNo video record of taking your pills, on time, every time? Off to the special regime labor camp you go.
Care to share a link detailing the "special labor camp" 10X25mm.
DeleteI'd like to compare public health effort of the Russians with our forced sanitariums of the 1900's through prewar WW2.
Public health is important. Compliance with something really contagious seems prudent.
But then again I recall the submission campaign of mere face diapers against a disease so grave that President Biden told us to take the shot of "Face a winter of sickness and death".
Want some links?
The Wikipedia page 'Prisons in Russia' has an entire section on TB in Russian special regime corrective labor colonies (IK). There are over 750 corrective labor colonies in Russia today, divided into four regimes. The special regime is the least common, and used for prisoners with specific characteristics. Wikipedia has a separate page on corrective labor colonies.
DeleteRussia does not disclose the exact nature of each of their IKs, but after widespread TB outbreaks in the IK's during the late Soviet period, they reserved at least 16 for refractory TB cases. Those and maybe a dozen more are still dedicated to TB cases and the judicial system sends refractory TB cases to them.
I read Wikipedia but then go and seek out several of the "facts" in it.
DeleteAfter all, in its own pages it's written by folks like you and I and subject to revision constantly.
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The 'Prisons in Russia' article is actually an abridged version of the Russian authored Wikipedia page: 'Пенитенциарная система России.' The Russian Wikipedia page is written by people close to the subject matter and has an amazing 409 reference entries in its section titled 'Примечания.'
DeleteI would have sent you directly to the Russian page if I thought you read Russian. The Russian word for tuberculosis is "Туберкулёз." They do not abbreviate it as TB. You will fine a much more comprehensive discussion of tuberculosis in the IK's on the Russian Wikipedia page section titled "Туберкулёз." References 307 to 313 provide much more information on TB and the IK's.
If things go south far enough fast enough feral dog packs will likely become a significant risk in some places. Another reason to always be armed.
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DeleteCrap like that is why we used to get paid to shoot feral dogs and cats. Re the TB, that is actually old news. Six years ago, there were cases in Sacramento schools from 'students' from Mexico and south that the school DID NOT tell parents about... sigh
ReplyDeleteI point this out to my proggie co-workers. They hold a hard line position regarding second hand smoke, yet whistle past the graveyard regarding second hand TB. I wonder if they realize the dichotomy and it is too much to admit to themselves.
ReplyDeleteJim
Wisconsin dropped mandatory TB testing of home care workers about 20 years ago because our risk was determined to be no greater than the general populace. I hate needles but would rather get tested annually for something like TB. Come to think of it, we had TB tests and Chest X-rays in high school.
ReplyDeleteWTH is wrong with people encouraging packs of strays? That's like having unprotected sex with strangers to prove you're not afraid of STDs. Stupid stupid stupid.
ETA: We had a patient come in for a chest x-ray with "suspected TB". Coworkers freaked when they couldn't find the special "duck bill" N100 masks they were required to wear. I was a student so I wasn't allowed to do the procedure. Heh. Fine by me. Patient arrived wearing a mask with an N100 taped to his very own film cassette. Fun times.
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