Cattle in South Dakota infected with Bovine Tuberculosis spreads to humans too

[MindWars]

Cattle in South Dakota has been diagnosed with a form of tuberculosis that is a chronic bacterial disease found to impact cattle that occasionally affects other species of mammals and can spread to humans! According to a report from a local affiliate, A Harding County, South Dakota, ranch is currently under quarantine after three cows on the ranch were found to be infected with bovine tuberculosis. “All fenceline neighbors are under quarantine at this time, too”, said South Dakota state veterinarian Dr. Dustin Oedekoven.

Cattle In South Dakota Infected with Bovine Tuberculosis
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Keep racking up these diseases sooner or later we will see a plaque oh wait we've been having those too. It's just half the country has no fkn clue because their trusty msm hasn't said anything yet.
As long as it can covered up quick that's all that matters.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Better be funding research and the Cdc in order to deal with it!

 

[MindWars]

And in the same category of illness for humans lol

 

[Moonglow]

Cattle in South Dakota has been diagnosed with a form of tuberculosis that is a chronic bacterial disease found to impact cattle that occasionally affects other species of mammals and can spread to humans! According to a report from a local affiliate, A Harding County, South Dakota, ranch is currently under quarantine after three cows on the ranch were found to be infected with bovine tuberculosis. “All fenceline neighbors are under quarantine at this time, too”, said South Dakota state veterinarian Dr. Dustin Oedekoven.

Cattle In South Dakota Infected with Bovine Tuberculosis
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Keep racking up these diseases sooner or later we will see a plaque oh wait we've been having those too. It's just half the country has no fkn clue because their trusty msm hasn't said anything yet.
As long as it can covered up quick that's all that matters.

Half of the US population eats the meat, they don't raise them..So they would hardly know or care..

 

[waltky]

Superbug TB threatening to derail decades of progress against the disease...

Rise of Superbug Tuberculosis Hampers Global Control Efforts
March 22, 2017 — Rising rates of superbug tuberculosis (TB) are threatening to derail decades of progress against the contagious disease, experts said Thursday, and new drugs powerful enough to treat them are few and far between.

TB kills more people each year than any other infectious disease, including HIV and AIDS. In 2015 alone, it is estimated to have killed 1.8 million people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). While some new antibiotics with the potential to treat some drug-resistant strains are becoming available for the first time, experts who conducted a global study said that without accurate diagnostics, better case tracking and clear treatment guidelines, their effectiveness could rapidly be lost. "Resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs is a global problem that threatens to derail efforts to eradicate the disease," said Keertan Dheda, a University of Cape Town professor who co-led research published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. "Cure rates for drug-resistant TB are poor and people can remain infectious."

A physician examines an X-ray picture of a tuberculosis patient.​

TB is a bacterial infection normally treated with a combination of antibiotics. But extensive overuse of antibiotics worldwide has led to a rise in drug-resistant "superbug" strains. Bacteria can acquire many drug-resistance traits over time, making several types of antibiotics ineffective. Some 1 in 5 cases of TB are now resistant to at least one major anti-TB drug, the researchers found. Around 1 in 20 are classed as multidrug-resistant (MDR) — meaning they are resistant to two essential first-line TB drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin — or extensively drug-resistant — meaning they are also resistant to fluoroquinolones and second-line injectable drugs. Approximately half of global cases of MDR-TB are in India, China, and Russia, but migration and international travel have allowed these highly drug-resistant strains to emerge in almost every part of the world.

In a commentary on TB in the same journal, David W. Dowdy, a specialist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States, warned that over the next decade, "it is quite possible that we will see a drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic of unprecedented global scale." He added, however, that it might also be possible for the global health community to bring about "an unprecedented reversal" of the drug-resistant TB problem. "The difference between these two outcomes lies less with the pathogen and more with ... whether we have the political will to prioritize," he said. "Drug-resistant TB is not standing still; neither can we."

Rise of Superbug Tuberculosis Hampers Global Control Efforts

 

[waltky]

Doctors Warn Of New Drug-Resistant TB...

On World Tuberculosis Day, Doctors Warn Of New Drug-Resistant Bacteria
March 24, 2017 — Friday marks the United Nations’ World Tuberculosis Day, aimed at raising awareness of a disease that kills an estimated 1.8 million people every year. Six countries account for nearly two-thirds of the cases: India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa.

The date commemorates the day in 1882 when German scientist Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the cause of the disease, the TB bacillus. It remains the most deadly infectious disease in the world. “Every single day 5,000 people lose their lives because of tuberculosis. TB hits particularly those vulnerable populations that include migrants, refugees, prisoners, people who are marginalized in their societies,” said Mario Raviglione, the World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis Program Director.

Drug-resistant strains

In recent years drug-resistant strains of TB have taken hold around the world, posing an increasingly urgent public health threat. These strains often go undetected and are spread across populations. “In South Africa, for example, TB is the commonest cause of death and the disease is out of control in Africa,” said Dr. Keertan Dheda, head of the Division of Pulmonology at the University of Cape Town.

A doctor examines a tuberculosis patient in a government TB hospital in Allahabad, India, March 24, 2014. An estimated 1.8 million people die every year of the disease.​

But there is new hope as a small number of new drugs have become available. “For the first time after about four to five decades, we have two drugs. One is called bedaquiline,” Dheda said. “That has now been registered in South Africa and is available to treat many patients with drug-resistant TB. And there’s another new drug called delamanid, that’s not yet licensed in South Africa but is available in other countries.”

New drugs must be used carefully

In a report published in the Lancet medical journal, Dheda and his co-authors warn that the effectiveness of these new drugs could be rapidly lost if they aren’t used correctly. “There are several case reports globally of patients that have already become resistant to both delamanid and bedaquiline. We need to change our strategy,” Dheda said. “We need to go out into the community and find these cases. We have to address the major drivers of TB, which are poverty and overcrowding, nutritional deprivation, alcohol abuse, cigarette smoking and biomass fuel exposure,” Dheda added in a VOA interview Thursday. The report warns the new drugs must be prescribed as individually targeted treatments with clear dosing guidelines, to prevent further resistant TB strains from emerging.

On World Tuberculosis Day, Doctors Warn Of New Drug-Resistant Bacteria

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Protecting Rights of TB Patients Critical in Ending Global Epidemic
March 23, 2017 — In advance of World TB day (March 24), the World Health Organization is warning the battle to wipe out the global tuberculosis epidemic will not be won unless stigma, discrimination and marginalization of TB patients is brought to an end. VOA was in Geneva at the launch of new WHO ethics guidance for the treatment of people with tuberculosis.

Progress is being made toward achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goal of ending the global TB epidemic by 2030. The World Health Organization reports 49 million lives have been saved since 2000. But, much remains to be done. Data from 2015 show more than 10.4 million people fell ill and 1.8 million died of tuberculosis, with most cases and fatalities occurring in developing countries. The World Health Organization says stigma and discrimination against TB patients hamper efforts to wipe out this deadly disease.

WHO Global TB Program medical officer Ernesto Jaramillo says vulnerable people, such as migrants, prisoners, ethnic minorities, marginalized women and children are most likely to suffer abuse, neglect and rejection. He says this prevents them from seeking treatment for tuberculosis. “Having new tools for diagnosis, and treatment of TB is not sufficient if there are not clear standards to ensure that vulnerable people can have access in a matter of priority to these tools in a way that the end TB strategy can really serve the interest not only of individuals, but also the interests of public health in general ," said Jaramillo.

WHO Global TB program director Mario Raviglione tells VOA no country, rich or poor, is immune from getting tuberculosis. He warns marginalizing patients with TB is dangerous. “You cannot eliminate a disease like TB thinking that you build walls or you isolate your country," said Raviglione. "TB is an airborne disease. It travels by air. So, you have a Boeing 747 that leaves Malawi tonight and it comes to Switzerland tomorrow morning and there you go. So, it has to be faced from a global perspective.”

New WHO ethical guidance includes actions to overcome barriers of stigma, discrimination and marginalization of people with tuberculosis. The agency says protecting the human rights of all those affected will save many lives and will make it possible to end this global scourge.

Protecting Rights of TB Patients Critical in Ending Global Epidemic

 

[waltky]

possum thinks dat's a mean lookin' moo-cow...

WHO Urges Action to Stop Animal TB, Its Spread to Humans
October 12, 2017 — The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging action to stop the spread of tuberculosis from animals to humans. The health agency warns zoonotic TB, as it is called, infects about 150,000 people and kills more than 12,000 every year.

The WHO says TB in animals has been neglected for too long and it is time to put an end to that. So, for the first time, the organization is issuing a road map to combat animal tuberculosis and its transmission to humans. Anna Dean, technical officer for Zoonotic and Drug Resistant Tuberculosis at the WHO, told VOA zoonotic TB is a global problem, with the disease thriving mainly in Africa and to a lesser extent in the Asia region. “It is mainly transmitted to people through food; dairy products and milk that have not been heat-treated is the most common route. Less commonly, it can also be transmitted through the consumption of improperly prepared meat from diseased animals,” Dean said.

Cows graze in a field in Vlezenbeek near Brussels, Belgium, Aug. 7, 2015. Veterinary authorities in Western countries routinely cull cattle infected with bovine tuberculosis whereas similar protocols are less prevalent in developing countries.​

Besides posing a major risk to food safety and human health, the WHO notes bovine TB threatens people’s livelihoods and results in major economic and trade barriers.

Dean said the best way to eliminate bovine TB is to slaughter diseased animals. She says that is generally not a hardship for wealthy countries such as the United States, where cattle herders tend to be compensated for their lost animals. Dean pointed out that in other parts of the world, doing so poses a challenge. “It is not the case obviously in African countries. To implement these animal health interventions requires a lot of economic - a lot of financial investment. So, I think to stop, to prevent TB in people, you need to first of all control the disease in animals,” she said. Dean added that improving food safety, which can be easily done, is also essential. For example, she says, boiling untreated milk is enough to kill TB and other important bacteria that can cause illness in people.

WHO Urges Action to Stop Animal TB, Its Spread to Humans

 

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Giant Rats Could Help Fight Tuberculosis in Major Cities...

Could Giant Rats Help Fight Tuberculosis in Major Cities?
November 15, 2017 — Giant rats are probably not the first thing that come to mind to tackle tuberculosis but scientists hope their sniffing skills will speed up efforts to detect the deadly disease in major cities across the world.

Tuberculosis, which is curable and preventable, is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), killing 1.7 million people in 2016 and infecting 10.4 million others. African Giant Pouched Rats, trained by Belgian charity APOPO, are known for sniffing out landmines in countries from Angola to Cambodia and for detecting TB cases in East Africa. Over the next few years, APOPO plans to fight tuberculosis at the source by launching TB-detection rat facilities in major cities of 30 high-risk countries including Vietnam, India and Nigeria. "One of the best ways to fight TB at source is in major cities that draw a lot of people from the rural areas," James Pursey, APOPO spokesman, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "It is a vicious circle. You can be reinfected. To fight TB, you have to hit it hard," he said by phone from Zimbabwe.

Dr. Simon Angelo (L) examines Iman Steven suffering from tuberculosis, held by her mother (R) at the hospital of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), June 15, 2016, at the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Malakal, South Sudan.​

Many people get infected in big, densely populated cities and spread the disease to rural areas, according to Pursey. The rats learn to recognize the presence of TB in samples of mucus that is coughed up from the patient's lower airways. In Tanzania, people in communities where TB is most common, including in prisons, often fail to show up for screening because of a lack of money or awareness, placing a huge burden on health authorities, health experts said. "TB is a disease of poverty," said Pursey. "If nothing changes it can only get worse."

The APOPO has seen the TB detection rate increase by 40 percent in clinics it has worked with in Tanzania and Mozambique, according to Pursey, who said that using rats to screen did not negate the need for proper diagnostic testing. While a technician may take four days to detect a case of TB, a trained rat can screen 100 samples in 20 minutes, and a rat screening costs as little as 20 US cents, APOPO said.

Could Giant Rats Help Fight Tuberculosis in Major Cities?