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That is very astute of you to compare ows to prisons.
Wow..you are making a wild logical leap. Mutant strains of TB have been coming out of prisons for some time now. Why? Because of the harsh environment conservatives want to make prisons into..and budget cuts. Having people with little access to health care in a very crowded environment may feel good to sadistic types, but it's a breeding ground for disease. And when you consider that not every prison sentence is for life..it's a ticking time bomb.
Oh get this. ONLY conservatives run prisons?
Tell me. Do conservatives run the OWS as well?
Pretty stupid attempt to deflect on your part!
Please forward this to the GOP so they make a campaign speech out of it.The OWS shitters are responsible for the unsanitary conditions at their sites. Unless you want to say that mommy hasn't come along to change diapers, it's their fault. The areas should be left alone. Let the diseases spread. I was hoping for typhoid myself, let them get robbed, raped, killed. Leave them be to suffer the consequences of their actions and choices.
This is just straight up nasty.. Like I asked before.. is leprosy next?? *gag*
It has to do with you demonizing people.
What has that got to the do the with the lack of sanitation happening at OWS?
You're no different than a Nazi.
And before you cry over that, the description fits.
It's not surprising. Large unruly unkempt, crowds pissing and shitting everywhere, exposed to the weather,, TB is an opportunistic disease.. it likes dirty filthy crowded conditions when humans and their immune systems have been weakened..
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Should I get tested for TB?What are the tests for TB infection?What if I have a positive test for TB infection?What if I have been vaccinated with BCG?If I have latent TB infection, how can I keep from developing active TB disease?What if I have HIV infection?If I was exposed to someone with active TB disease, can I give TB to others?Latent TB Infection
Should I get tested for TB?
You should get tested for TB if
•You have spent time with a person known or suspected to have active TB disease; or
•You have HIV infection or another condition that weakens your immune system and puts you at high risk for active TB disease; or
•You have symptoms of active TB disease; or
•You are from a country where active TB disease is very common (most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Russia); or
•You live somewhere in the United States where active TB disease is more common such as a homeless shelter, migrant farm camp, prison or jail, and some nursing homes; or
•You inject illegal drugs.
What are the tests for TB infection?
The TB skin test
The TB skin test may be used to find out if you are infected with TB bacteria. You can get a skin test at the health department or at your doctor's office. A health care worker will inject a small amount of testing fluid (called tuberculin or PPD) just under the skin on the lower part of your arm. After 2 or 3 days, you must return to have your skin test read by the health care worker. You may have a swelling where the tuberculin was injected. The health care worker will measure this swelling and tell you if your reaction to the test is positive or negative. A positive reaction usually means that you have been infected by someone with active TB disease.
If you have recently been infected with TB bacteria, your TB skin test reaction may not be positive yet. You may need a second skin test 8 to 10 weeks after the last time you spent time with the person with active TB disease. This is because it can take several weeks after infection for your immune system to react to the TB skin test. If your reaction to the second test is negative, you probably do not have TB infection.
Special TB blood tests
These are new tests available that use a blood sample to find out if you are infected with TB bacteria. The tests measure the response of TB proteins when they are mixed with a small amount of blood. Since they are relatively new, few health departments offer these blood tests. If your health department does offer the special TB blood tests, only one visit is required to draw blood for the test. Examples of these special TB blood tests include QuantiFERON®-TB Gold (QFT-G), QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube test (QFT-GIT); and T-Spot®.TB test.
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What if I have a positive test for TB infection?
If you have a positive reaction to the TB skin test, or special TB blood test, your doctor or nurse may do other tests to see if you have active TB disease. These tests usually include a chest x-ray. They may also include a test of the sputum you cough up. Because the TB bacteria may be found somewhere other than your lungs, your doctor or nurse may check your blood or urine, or do other tests. If you have active TB disease, you will need to take medicine to treat the disease.
What if I have been vaccinated with BCG?
BCG is a vaccine for TB. This vaccine is not widely used in the United States, but it is often given to infants and small children in other countries where TB is common. BCG vaccine does not always protect people from getting TB.
If you were vaccinated with BCG, you may have a positive reaction to a TB skin test. This reaction may be due to the BCG vaccine itself or due to infection with the TB bacteria. Your positive reaction is more likely to mean you have been infected with TB bacteria if
•You recently spent time with a person who has active TB disease; or
•You are from an area of the world where active TB disease is very common (such as most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Russia); or
•You spend time where TB disease is common (homeless shelters, migrant farm camps, drug-treatment centers, health care clinics, jails, prisons).
The special TB blood tests are not affected by prior BCG vaccination and are less likely to give a false-positive result.
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If I have latent TB infection, how can I keep from developing active TB disease?
Many people who have latent TB infection never develop active TB disease. But some people who have latent TB infection are more likely to develop active TB disease than others. Those at high risk for active TB disease include
•people with HIV infection
•people who became infected with TB bacteria in the last 2 years
•babies and young children
•people who inject illegal drugs
•people who are sick with other diseases that weaken the immune system
•elderly people
•people who were not treated correctly for TB in the past
If you have latent TB infection (a positive TB skin test reaction or positive TB blood test) and you are in one of these high-risk groups, you need to take medicine to keep from developing active TB disease. This is called treatment for latent TB infection. There are several treatment options. You and your health care provider must decide which treatment is best for you.
The medicine usually taken for the treatment of latent TB infection is called isoniazid (INH). Taken for 6 to 9 months, INH kills the TB bacteria that are in the body. If you take your medicine as instructed by your doctor or nurse, it can keep you from developing active TB disease. Children, adolescents, and HIV-infected persons with latent TB infection need to take INH for 9 months.
Because there are less bacteria, treatment for latent TB infection is much easier than treatment for TB disease. Usually, only one drug is needed to treat latent TB infection. A person with active TB disease has a large amount of TB bacteria in the body. Several drugs are needed to treat active TB disease.
Sometimes people are given treatment for latent TB infection even if their skin test reaction is negative. This is often done with infants, children, and HIV-infected persons who have recently spent time with someone with active TB disease. This is because they are at very high risk of developing active TB disease soon after they become infected with TB bacteria.
It is important that you take all the pills as prescribed. If you start taking INH, you will need to see your doctor or nurse on a regular schedule. The doctor or nurse will check on how you are doing. Some people have serious side effects from INH. If you have any of the following side effects, call your doctor or nurse right away:
•no appetite
•nausea
•vomiting
•yellowish skin or eyes
•fever for 3 or more days
•abdominal pain
•tingling in the fingers and toes
Warning: Frequent or heavy drinking of alcoholic beverages (wine, beer, and liquor) while taking INH can be dangerous. Check with your doctor or nurse for more information.
People who have latent TB infection need to know the symptoms of active TB disease. If they develop symptoms of active TB disease, they should see a doctor right away.
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What if I have HIV infection?
Because HIV infection weakens the immune system, people with latent TB infection and HIV infection are at very high risk of developing active TB disease. All persons with HIV infection should be tested to find out if they have latent TB infection. If they have latent TB infection, they need treatment as soon as possible to prevent them from developing active TB disease. If they have active TB disease, they must take medicine to treat the disease.
Active TB disease can be prevented and treated, even in people with HIV infection.
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If I was exposed to someone with active TB disease, can I give TB to others?
If you were exposed to someone with active TB disease, you may become infected with TB bacteria, but you would not be able to spread the bacteria to others right away. Only persons with active TB disease can spread TB to others. Before you would be able to spread TB bacteria to others, you would have to breathe in TB bacteria and become infected. Then the active bacteria would have to multiply in your body and cause active TB disease. At this point, you could possibly spread TB bacteria to others.
Some people develop active TB disease soon (within weeks) after becoming infected, before their immune system can fight the TB bacteria. Other people may get sick years later, when their immune system becomes weak for another reason. Many people with TB infection never develop TB disease.
In most people who breathe in TB bacteria and become infected, the body is able to fight the bacteria to stop them from growing. The bacteria become inactive, but they remain alive in the body and can become active later. This is called latent TB infection. People with latent TB infection cannot spread TB bacteria to others. People who have latent TB infection can be treated to prevent developing active TB disease.
The TB shot you got as a kid is worthless to you now.It's not surprising. Large unruly unkempt, crowds pissing and shitting everywhere, exposed to the weather,, TB is an opportunistic disease.. it likes dirty filthy crowded conditions when humans and their immune systems have been weakened..
Only problem is, they talk about how "compromised immune systems" can get it?
I have to take a steroid inhaler every day for asthma and steroids lower your immune system.
I sure hope that damn TB shot I got as a kid protects me!
All I need (heck, all WE need) is these idiots to go home and start spreading this around in their communities.
I'm sure glad my kids have all their shots.
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) - The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.Tuberculosis has been spread in areas not imagined in modern times. I recall a number of years ago when the elites on the Upper East Side of Manhattan found some of their kids getting TB because their private school bus drivers, hired at the lowest wages, were new immigrants from countries that had poor sanitation and high tuberculosis rates. This leads to the next question.
The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
Last month, local health officials in Santa Barbara County warned about an outbreak of tuberculosis.
There is concern tonight about the latest outbreak of tuberculosis cases in Santa Barbara County.So what may happen when the upscale Atlanta protesters with their $200,000 sociology degrees go back to their wealthy suburbs and cough on Mummy, Daddy and sister Muffie? Oh, yes. And they might also cough on the maid and chauffeur as well. If the help gets tuberculosis from the young protestors, they just might have to hire John Edwards to sue the families in a class action case. If he's not available and the help is female, they might hire Gloria Allred. But I digress.
County health officials say there have been 17 confirmed cases this year. 14 of them are in northern Santa Barbara County. There were 33 cases last year and that was the highest in recent history.
Santa Barbara County is considered a moderate risk county compared to the rest of the state. Public health officials say TB is treatable but many people may not know they are infected. The disease can often lie dorminant for years inside your body and suddenly become active.
Read more: Blog: Occupy Atlanta has confirmed Tuberculosis cases
Now me? I didn't know TB even existed any more. I thought it had been eradicated with diseases like polio when they gave you that sugar cube with the pink dot on it. Didn't you get a TB shot when you were a kid? I sure did. Couldn't enter school without one.
I think this has to do with that STUPID liberal idea of "I don't want any chemicals entering my baby's body," idea of not giving them innoculations.
Idiotic! I grew up in a time when two years before polio was still a dreaded disease, and they handed out those sugar cubes in kindergarten. We were the lucky ones. If we had been born but two years prior it would have been the luck of the draw whether or not we contracted polio.
Now these STUPID Occupy people are spreading TB????
What's next? The Black Death?
My kid and I were joking about that the other day (from the lack of sanitation), we were sure we could find lots of rats and we could name them "Bubonic" and "Plague."
Now, it looks like it's not a laughing matter.
It more likely Illegal immigrants from overseas or south of the border that brought TB in with them.......that is part of the problem with illegal immigration, many countries that are bad enough to motivate people to break our immigration laws don't do vaccinations.
What a steaming load of propagandic nonsense.
Like the OWS movement is the vector for TB in the USA?
Hey-Zeus-k-rist on a crutch, how fucking stupid are you, anyway?
Read more: Blog: Occupy Atlanta has confirmed Tuberculosis cases
Now me? I didn't know TB even existed any more. I thought it had been eradicated with diseases like polio when they gave you that sugar cube with the pink dot on it. Didn't you get a TB shot when you were a kid? I sure did. Couldn't enter school without one.
I think this has to do with that STUPID liberal idea of "I don't want any chemicals entering my baby's body," idea of not giving them innoculations.
Idiotic! I grew up in a time when two years before polio was still a dreaded disease, and they handed out those sugar cubes in kindergarten. We were the lucky ones. If we had been born but two years prior it would have been the luck of the draw whether or not we contracted polio.
Now these STUPID Occupy people are spreading TB????
What's next? The Black Death?
My kid and I were joking about that the other day (from the lack of sanitation), we were sure we could find lots of rats and we could name them "Bubonic" and "Plague."
Now, it looks like it's not a laughing matter.
It more likely Illegal immigrants from overseas or south of the border that brought TB in with them.......that is part of the problem with illegal immigration, many countries that are bad enough to motivate people to break our immigration laws don't do vaccinations.
You are right about that.
Why do people think bed bugs have made a resurgence in this country?
THANK YOU ILLEGALS!!!!!!!
Something that was relagated to nursery rhymes has become a reality in this country again.
What a steaming load of propagandic nonsense.
Like the OWS movement is the vector for TB in the USA?
Hey-Zeus-k-rist on a crutch, how fucking stupid are you, anyway?
Dude, this is common sense.
If you live months on end (and how long have they been there now?) with no sanitation, what do you think is going to happen?
There is a reason the black death was the black death in Europe, lack of proper sanitation.
It doesn't take a college degree to figure out, this was bound to happen.
If you are concerned about bed bugs, thank the EPA. The chemicals used to kill them are illegal.
Read more: Blog: Occupy Atlanta has confirmed Tuberculosis cases
Now me? I didn't know TB even existed any more. I thought it had been eradicated with diseases like polio when they gave you that sugar cube with the pink dot on it. Didn't you get a TB shot when you were a kid? I sure did. Couldn't enter school without one.
I think this has to do with that STUPID liberal idea of "I don't want any chemicals entering my baby's body," idea of not giving them innoculations.
Idiotic! I grew up in a time when two years before polio was still a dreaded disease, and they handed out those sugar cubes in kindergarten. We were the lucky ones. If we had been born but two years prior it would have been the luck of the draw whether or not we contracted polio.
Now these STUPID Occupy people are spreading TB????
What's next? The Black Death?
My kid and I were joking about that the other day (from the lack of sanitation), we were sure we could find lots of rats and we could name them "Bubonic" and "Plague."
Now, it looks like it's not a laughing matter.
It more likely Illegal immigrants from overseas or south of the border that brought TB in with them.......that is part of the problem with illegal immigration, many countries that are bad enough to motivate people to break our immigration laws don't do vaccinations.
No..it's directly coming from prisons. This has been reported on for years. Have no idea why suddenly now..it's important. Oh yeah..it is yet another reason to bash OWS.
I like the fact you are using this for partisan reasons. You actually have great joy for these people getting sick.
Thats who you are now samurai.you really are the lowest of the low..
Now me? I didn't know TB even existed any more.
I thought it had been eradicated with diseases like polio when they gave you that sugar cube with the pink dot on it. Didn't you get a TB shot when you were a kid? I sure did. Couldn't enter school without one.
I think this has to do with that STUPID liberal idea of "I don't want any chemicals entering my baby's body," idea of not giving them innoculations.
IMPLEMENTATION OF BCG VACCINATION
In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated. Before a decision to vaccinate a person is made, the following factors should be considered: a) the variable protective efficacy of BCG vaccine, especially in adults; b) the difficulty of interpreting tuberculin skin-test results after BCG vaccination; c) the possible risks for exposure of immunocompromised persons to the vaccine; and d) the possibility that other public health or infection-control measures known to be effective in the prevention and control of TB might not be implemented. Physicians who are considering BCG vaccination for their patients are encouraged to discuss this intervention with personnel in the TB control programs in their area. To obtain additional consultation and technical information, contact CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination; telephone (404) 639-8120.
Idiotic! I grew up in a time when two years before polio was still a dreaded disease, and they handed out those sugar cubes in kindergarten. We were the lucky ones. If we had been born but two years prior it would have been the luck of the draw whether or not we contracted polio.
Now these STUPID Occupy people are spreading TB????
My kid and I were joking about that the other day (from the lack of sanitation), we were sure we could find lots of rats and we could name them "Bubonic" and "Plague."
Now, it looks like it's not a laughing matter.
.Since then, human plague in the United States has occurred as mostly scattered cases in rural areas (an average of 10 to 15 persons each year). Globally, the World Health Organization reports 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague every year. In North America, plague is found in certain animals and their fleas from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from southwestern Canada to Mexico. Most human cases in the United States occur in two regions: 1) northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southern Colorado; and 2) California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada. Plague also exists in Africa, Asia, and South America (see map).
I like the fact you are using this for partisan reasons. You actually have great joy for these people getting sick.
Thats who you are now samurai.you really are the lowest of the low..
YEAH AND THE RANTS AGAINST THE TEA PARTY WEREN'T FOR PARTISAN REASONS????????????
You libs are HILARIOUSLY hypocritical.
All the rants, all the smears against the Tea Party.
Oh, THAT was okay, right??????????
But now we bring out FACTS about the OWS, and that's "partisan."
What cracks me up is when you libs whine, it never occurs to you what laughable hypocrites you are.
The TB shot you got as a kid is worthless to you now.It's not surprising. Large unruly unkempt, crowds pissing and shitting everywhere, exposed to the weather,, TB is an opportunistic disease.. it likes dirty filthy crowded conditions when humans and their immune systems have been weakened..
Only problem is, they talk about how "compromised immune systems" can get it?
I have to take a steroid inhaler every day for asthma and steroids lower your immune system.
I sure hope that damn TB shot I got as a kid protects me!
All I need (heck, all WE need) is these idiots to go home and start spreading this around in their communities.
I'm sure glad my kids have all their shots.
Why not visit a homeless shelter? I thought you were a loving conservative.
