| We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Seven Test Positive for Latent TB at Nebraska High School Where Active Case Was Diagnosed | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 20 2016, 02:21 AM (365 Views) | |
| Berton | Dec 20 2016, 02:21 AM Post #1 |
![]()
Thunder Fan
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Seven Test Positive for Latent TB at Nebraska High School Where Active Case Was Diagnosed Seven of 172 students, faculty, and staff at Benson Magnet High School in Omaha, Nebraska, who were given blood tests during the past two weeks have tested positive for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. WOWT in Omaha reported that 191 students, faculty, and staff were exposed to the disease by a student who was diagnosed with active TB at the school in November. Ten percent of those exposed, or 19 out of 191, did not submit to blood tests, so their TB status remains unknown. “Two hundred thirty seven of Benson Magnet High School’s 1,273 students, or 18.6 percent, are refugees, according to Omaha Public School’s District English Language Learner/Refugee Report, 2015-16,” Breitbart News reported on December 9. “Our thorough investigation revealed no further risk of exposure to active TB disease at Benson High School,” Dr. Adi Pour, Douglas County Public Health director, told WOWT. “Seven individuals were positive for the TB bacteria, but they most likely have latent TB infections. They were contacted by phone and referred to their regular provider for antibiotic treatment to prevent development of TB disease,” Pour added. “Families of students who had a negative TB test have been notified by mail. Those letters were expected to arrive yesterday,” WOWT reported: “After cross-checking records, it was determined that 191 people should have been screened for possible TB exposure. Of those, 90 percent participated in the free screening while others may have seen their own doctors.” Pour did not say why the 19 people who were exposed to TB at the school but did not undergo blood tests had been determined to pose “no further risk of exposure to active TB disease.” Nor did she explain whether the seven individuals who tested “positive for the TB bacteria … [and] most likely have latent TB infections” had been scheduled to undergo chest radiographs, which is the standard protocol in determining whether someone has active TB. “Officials with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and the Douglas County Public Health Department are withholding whether the student was foreign-born or American-born,” Breitbart News reported soon after the news broke that a student at Benson Magnet High School had been diagnosed with active TB. A spokesperson for the Douglas County Public Health Department later told Breitbart News that 11 of the 13 cases of active TB diagnosed in Douglas County for the period beginning January 1, 2016, and ending December 10, 2016, were foreign-born. That compares to 14 out of 16 in 2015 and 17 out of 18 in 2014. Since January 1, 2014, 89 percent of all cases of TB diagnosed in Douglas County, or 42 out of 47, have been foreign-born. Only nine percent of the population of Douglas County is foreign-born. This contrasts unfavorably with the country as a whole, where 66 percent of the 9,563 cases of active TB diagnosed in 2015 were foreign-born. It also is higher than the 82 percent rate of foreign-born TB cases reported for the entire state of Nebraska in 2014. The Centers for Disease Control recommends that all foreign-born refugees who arrive in the United States should be tested for latent TB in an initial domestic medical screening that is supposed to be conducted within 90 days of their arrival. Participating in such an initial domestic medical screening is not legally required, though most states report that between 70 percent and 90 percent of arriving refugees do complete initial domestic medical screenings and are tested for latent TB. Though not all states report the percentage of arriving refugees who complete their initial domestic medical screening who test positive for latent TB, Breitbart News has reported over the past year that in the eighteen states in which data is available, that percentage ranges from 11 percent in Florida to 35 percent in Vermont. “Twenty-five percent of the 4,848 refugees who completed initial domestic medical screenings in Nebraska during this five-year period [between 2011 and 2015] tested positive for latent TB infection (LTBI),” the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services told Breitbart News in August. Under the Refugee Act of 1980, resettlement agencies are responsible for monitoring and treating arriving refugees who have health problems, and should ensure that arriving refugees who test positive for latent TB are treated with a standard drug regimen so that the condition does not deteriorate to active TB, which is the deadly infectious disease that, if untreated, can lead to death. The state of Nebraska, however, was unable to tell Breitbart News how many of the arriving refugees there who tested positive for latent TB received this treatment. Breitbart News asked both the Douglas County Public Health Department and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services how many of the 237 refugees who are currently students at Benson Magnet High School, where the active TB case was diagnosed, completed initial domestic medical screenings upon their arrival in the United States. We also asked how many of those students tested positive for latent TB in their initial domestic medical screenings, and how many of those who tested positive received treatment for the condition. Neither the Douglas County Public Health Department nor the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services responded to Breitbart News inquiries. An estimated four percent of the general population tests positive for latent TB. Ten percent of that group develops active TB during the course of a lifetime. As numerous medical studies have demonstrated, including a 2013 study conducted by the University of California at San Diego, high rates of latent TB among refugees pose a risk to the health of the general population in communities in which they are resettled. Refugees with latent TB demonstrate a higher rate of activation than those in the general population of the United States with latent TB. One possible explanation for this is that refugees are more likely to experience lower immune systems due to high stress, crowded environments. LINK Thanks Obama, you found another way to hurt the country. Note that none of these people are being settled in areas where he would live. |
![]() |
|
| Stoned | Dec 20 2016, 05:27 AM Post #2 |
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
"An estimated four percent of the general population tests positive for latent TB." That is 12 MILLION people, a million and a quarter in California alone! What is being done to protect the immigrants from our general population? |
![]() |
|
| Berton | Dec 20 2016, 07:37 AM Post #3 |
![]()
Thunder Fan
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
This outbreak came from people outside the US who should not have been here to start it. You obviously do not care about the people of the US. What are you some kind of a Canadian masquerading as a US citizen? |
![]() |
|
| Stoned | Dec 20 2016, 10:16 PM Post #4 |
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
According to your link 12 million people in the US have latent TB Seven additional cases constitute an "outbreak"? Living in your conservative la la land must indeed be hell. |
![]() |
|
| colo_crawdad | Dec 20 2016, 10:57 PM Post #5 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Unless the3re is evidence that these refugees came into the country illegally, they should have been tested for communicable diseases and anything like active TB should be corrected prior to their entry into general society. |
![]() |
|
| Stoned | Dec 20 2016, 11:20 PM Post #6 |
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Oh for Christ's sake! Seven cases of latent TB? This is endemic on our streets with the homeless. If you are really worried about it start there! |
![]() |
|
| Pat | Dec 21 2016, 12:37 AM Post #7 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
And again the left tries blaming Americans for the epidemics breaking out of diseases long under control until the recent open borber and immigration policies. In the past an immigrant was subjected to quarantine before being allowed to enter the country from regions known to have these diseases rampant in their populations. Obviously not anymore. Another example of Obama's enduring legacy.
|
![]() |
|
| Neutral | Dec 21 2016, 01:34 AM Post #8 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
It is always America's fault with the left, why they don't find another country is beyond me. |
![]() |
|
| Stoned | Dec 21 2016, 02:15 AM Post #9 |
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Run Chicken Little. RUN!!!! Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the body without signs and symptoms, or radiographic or bacteriologic evidence of tuberculosis (TB) disease. It is estimated that up to 13 million people in the United States have LTBI.Aug 5, 2016 In TB infection, or Latent TB Infection (LTBI), the TB bacteria are in the body but are asleep or inactive. A person with LTBI usually has a positive TB skin test and a normal chest x-ray. A person with LTBI does not have any symptoms of TB disease; and, this person is not sick and cannot spread TB to others. |
![]() |
|
| Neutral | Dec 21 2016, 02:17 AM Post #10 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Are you whining now about TB Stoner? |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
![]() ZetaBoards gives you all the tools to create a successful discussion community. Learn More · Sign-up for Free |
|
| Go to Next Page | |
| « Previous Topic · Fire And Ice General Discussion · Next Topic » |






![]](http://z3.ifrm.com/static/1/pip_r.png)




4:40 PM Jul 11
