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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.
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