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whopis01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-29-07 05:50 PM Original message |
U.S. isolates traveler infected with super-TB |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-29-07 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. This is just the beginning. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-29-07 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Though the cable TV news sensationalized this somewhat, seems the CDC |
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kurth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-29-07 11:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. "The treatment can often require surgery, and can cost $500,000 per patient" |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 12:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Dude in Sheriff Joe's jail because he didn't wear a face mask while outside. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. good and i hope he remains a prisoner until he is no longer infectious |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. It was on network news too last evening and this morning |
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medlakeguy (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-29-07 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
4. Again? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 12:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Tuberculosis aka consumption aka the white plague is historically a major killer.... |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 12:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. With more & more people getting less & less medical care... |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 12:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yep.TB is one of the reasons I keep pointing out the need for health care for everyone... |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 11:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I've lost many members of my family to TB |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 11:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. TB ran through my ex-husband's family just one generation before... |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Lines you pasted in word room there's a bracket s |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 03:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. Don't forget MRSA (methicillin resistant staph. aureus): HA and CA. |
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rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
9. We had a patient at our facility who flew over from India |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 11:39 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. I have heard many similar stories from two RN s in my family |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. This may or may not be an accurate accounting of what goes on. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 10:56 PM Response to Reply #14 |
26. Maybe the fact you're hearing that many anecdotes |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I believe you just find it ironic |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 10:42 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Well after watching this story about the guy flying around with TB |
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kurth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 07:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Same thing with pregnant Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. what a jerk, some people everything is all about them |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. I agree he's a jerk |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:59 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. yeah sure what do you expect him to say? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
17. How ironic that history is repeating itself. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-30-07 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
22. What a jerk! |
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