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Bug plague on the rise
Topic Started: Mar 3 2013, 12:10 AM (211 Views)
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Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed on U.S. Border

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In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

His three-month odyssey through 13 countries—from his homeland of Nepal through South Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and finally into Texas—shows the way in which dangerous new strains of the disease can migrate across the world unchecked.

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem. Most U.S. cases of drug-resistant TB occur in people who were born abroad, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border carries a particularly deadly strain—XDR, "extensively drug-resistant" TB. His TB is resistant to at least eight of the 15 or so standard drugs, according to a U.S. government description of the case reviewed by the Journal. His XDR strain has been seen only once before in the U.S., in another patient of Nepalese origin, according to the government description......

This one was caught at the border. The way illegals come across the border, eventually some of these very ill people could make it across. Obama missed his chance during his state to state terror campaigning to mention that reduced border guards due to the cuts will endanger the entire U.S. and Canada. Maybe it's not too late though.
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They already have, kids in schools in Tucson have been infected with the same type of bug by classmates visiting Mexico. You know, the country that Telco believes is safe for his granddaughter.
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Mar 3 2013, 12:10 AM
Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed on U.S. Border

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In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

His three-month odyssey through 13 countries—from his homeland of Nepal through South Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and finally into Texas—shows the way in which dangerous new strains of the disease can migrate across the world unchecked.

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem. Most U.S. cases of drug-resistant TB occur in people who were born abroad, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border carries a particularly deadly strain—XDR, "extensively drug-resistant" TB. His TB is resistant to at least eight of the 15 or so standard drugs, according to a U.S. government description of the case reviewed by the Journal. His XDR strain has been seen only once before in the U.S., in another patient of Nepalese origin, according to the government description......

This one was caught at the border. The way illegals come across the border, eventually some of these very ill people could make it across. Obama missed his chance during his state to state terror campaigning to mention that reduced border guards due to the cuts will endanger the entire U.S. and Canada. Maybe it's not too late though.
No he didn't Ban. Google it. Here's one. And you should like the source.

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Good link. Well, I guess he doesn't miss much when it fits for his agenda. What did someone say.... 'Don't let a good crisis opportunity go to waste.' What could scare folks more than "plague" possibilities?
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Mountainrivers
Mar 3 2013, 12:15 AM
Banandangees
Mar 3 2013, 12:10 AM
Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed on U.S. Border

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In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

His three-month odyssey through 13 countries—from his homeland of Nepal through South Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and finally into Texas—shows the way in which dangerous new strains of the disease can migrate across the world unchecked.

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem. Most U.S. cases of drug-resistant TB occur in people who were born abroad, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border carries a particularly deadly strain—XDR, "extensively drug-resistant" TB. His TB is resistant to at least eight of the 15 or so standard drugs, according to a U.S. government description of the case reviewed by the Journal. His XDR strain has been seen only once before in the U.S., in another patient of Nepalese origin, according to the government description......

This one was caught at the border. The way illegals come across the border, eventually some of these very ill people could make it across. Obama missed his chance during his state to state terror campaigning to mention that reduced border guards due to the cuts will endanger the entire U.S. and Canada. Maybe it's not too late though.
No he didn't Ban. Google it. Here's one. And you should like the source.

source
:hystery:

For a guy promising to reform immigration, I can't think of a more stupid example for him to have used. He just handed congress an escape hatch from passing reform, After all, he now admits not only that the border is open for business, but that the government won't look at enforcement as a high spending priority. He also set free 2,000 being held for immigration violation and used the same excuse.
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Mar 3 2013, 12:21 AM
Mountainrivers
Mar 3 2013, 12:15 AM
Banandangees
Mar 3 2013, 12:10 AM
Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed on U.S. Border

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In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

His three-month odyssey through 13 countries—from his homeland of Nepal through South Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and finally into Texas—shows the way in which dangerous new strains of the disease can migrate across the world unchecked.

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem. Most U.S. cases of drug-resistant TB occur in people who were born abroad, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border carries a particularly deadly strain—XDR, "extensively drug-resistant" TB. His TB is resistant to at least eight of the 15 or so standard drugs, according to a U.S. government description of the case reviewed by the Journal. His XDR strain has been seen only once before in the U.S., in another patient of Nepalese origin, according to the government description......

This one was caught at the border. The way illegals come across the border, eventually some of these very ill people could make it across. Obama missed his chance during his state to state terror campaigning to mention that reduced border guards due to the cuts will endanger the entire U.S. and Canada. Maybe it's not too late though.
No he didn't Ban. Google it. Here's one. And you should like the source.

source
:hystery:

For a guy promising to reform immigration, I can't think of a more stupid example for him to have used. He just handed congress an escape hatch from passing reform, After all, he now admits not only that the border is open for business, but that the government won't look at enforcement as a high spending priority. He also set free 2,000 being held for immigration violation and used the same excuse.
From what I hear, congress isn't looking for an escape hatch. It's mostly conservatives who are bitching the most about illegal immigration, so why would they not want reform?
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Mar 3 2013, 12:21 AM
Mountainrivers
Mar 3 2013, 12:15 AM
Banandangees
Mar 3 2013, 12:10 AM
Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed on U.S. Border

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In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

His three-month odyssey through 13 countries—from his homeland of Nepal through South Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and finally into Texas—shows the way in which dangerous new strains of the disease can migrate across the world unchecked.

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem. Most U.S. cases of drug-resistant TB occur in people who were born abroad, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border carries a particularly deadly strain—XDR, "extensively drug-resistant" TB. His TB is resistant to at least eight of the 15 or so standard drugs, according to a U.S. government description of the case reviewed by the Journal. His XDR strain has been seen only once before in the U.S., in another patient of Nepalese origin, according to the government description......

This one was caught at the border. The way illegals come across the border, eventually some of these very ill people could make it across. Obama missed his chance during his state to state terror campaigning to mention that reduced border guards due to the cuts will endanger the entire U.S. and Canada. Maybe it's not too late though.
No he didn't Ban. Google it. Here's one. And you should like the source.

source
:hystery:

For a guy promising to reform immigration, I can't think of a more stupid example for him to have used. He just handed congress an escape hatch from passing reform, After all, he now admits not only that the border is open for business, but that the government won't look at enforcement as a high spending priority. He also set free 2,000 being held for immigration violation and used the same excuse.
How much do you suppose it costs the taxpayers to house, clothe and feed 2000 people, Pat? If the money isn't available, what else can he do?
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Mountainrivers
Mar 3 2013, 12:32 AM
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Mar 3 2013, 12:21 AM
Mountainrivers
Mar 3 2013, 12:15 AM
Banandangees
Mar 3 2013, 12:10 AM
Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed on U.S. Border

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In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

His three-month odyssey through 13 countries—from his homeland of Nepal through South Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and finally into Texas—shows the way in which dangerous new strains of the disease can migrate across the world unchecked.

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem. Most U.S. cases of drug-resistant TB occur in people who were born abroad, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border carries a particularly deadly strain—XDR, "extensively drug-resistant" TB. His TB is resistant to at least eight of the 15 or so standard drugs, according to a U.S. government description of the case reviewed by the Journal. His XDR strain has been seen only once before in the U.S., in another patient of Nepalese origin, according to the government description......

This one was caught at the border. The way illegals come across the border, eventually some of these very ill people could make it across. Obama missed his chance during his state to state terror campaigning to mention that reduced border guards due to the cuts will endanger the entire U.S. and Canada. Maybe it's not too late though.
No he didn't Ban. Google it. Here's one. And you should like the source.

source
:hystery:

For a guy promising to reform immigration, I can't think of a more stupid example for him to have used. He just handed congress an escape hatch from passing reform, After all, he now admits not only that the border is open for business, but that the government won't look at enforcement as a high spending priority. He also set free 2,000 being held for immigration violation and used the same excuse.
From what I hear, congress isn't looking for an escape hatch. It's mostly conservatives who are bitching the most about illegal immigration, so why would they not want reform?
I disagree< the vast majority of Americans want the border secured before any reforms take place. Poll after poll confirms this fact.
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Mar 3 2013, 12:49 AM
Mountainrivers
Mar 3 2013, 12:32 AM
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Mar 3 2013, 12:21 AM
Mountainrivers
Mar 3 2013, 12:15 AM
Banandangees
Mar 3 2013, 12:10 AM
Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed on U.S. Border

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In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

His three-month odyssey through 13 countries—from his homeland of Nepal through South Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and finally into Texas—shows the way in which dangerous new strains of the disease can migrate across the world unchecked.

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem. Most U.S. cases of drug-resistant TB occur in people who were born abroad, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border carries a particularly deadly strain—XDR, "extensively drug-resistant" TB. His TB is resistant to at least eight of the 15 or so standard drugs, according to a U.S. government description of the case reviewed by the Journal. His XDR strain has been seen only once before in the U.S., in another patient of Nepalese origin, according to the government description......

This one was caught at the border. The way illegals come across the border, eventually some of these very ill people could make it across. Obama missed his chance during his state to state terror campaigning to mention that reduced border guards due to the cuts will endanger the entire U.S. and Canada. Maybe it's not too late though.
No he didn't Ban. Google it. Here's one. And you should like the source.

source
:hystery:

For a guy promising to reform immigration, I can't think of a more stupid example for him to have used. He just handed congress an escape hatch from passing reform, After all, he now admits not only that the border is open for business, but that the government won't look at enforcement as a high spending priority. He also set free 2,000 being held for immigration violation and used the same excuse.
From what I hear, congress isn't looking for an escape hatch. It's mostly conservatives who are bitching the most about illegal immigration, so why would they not want reform?
I disagree< the vast majority of Americans want the border secured before any reforms take place. Poll after poll confirms this fact.
Well, tell us how you would secure the border, Pat.
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