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10-23-2014 | 05:24 PM
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10-26-2014 | 04:26 PM
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Fixed it
Sad thing is that these diseases can be directed related to both legal and illegal immigration.
Like someone said. It's a non issue until its your kid/wife/husband/mother/father.
People in the U.S. need to spend a semester in 3rd world countries to really grasp the real life concept of how preventative health care is almost non existent in these countries.
Global travel is just a parasitic carrier.
Sad thing is that these diseases can be directed related to both legal and illegal immigration.
Like someone said. It's a non issue until its your kid/wife/husband/mother/father.
People in the U.S. need to spend a semester in 3rd world countries to really grasp the real life concept of how preventative health care is almost non existent in these countries.
Global travel is just a parasitic carrier.
10-27-2014 | 05:08 PM
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10-28-2014 | 05:29 AM
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10-28-2014 | 04:30 PM
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10-29-2014 | 05:43 AM
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This is an interesting analogy of the reemergence of TB that could happen with the Ebola virus if not handled in a responsible manner.
Dr. Lloyd Lautner Emergency Medicine
The emergence of resistant TB is largely if not completely due to the abandonment of isolation and quarantine of active cases. There was a time when active TB patients were isolated and forced to COMPLETE a course of curative antibiotic therapy before allowed back into the general population. TB was under control and resistant strains did not exist. Not so anymore.
Irresponsible individuals (homeless, transients, drug addicts, mentally impaired, etc.) with active TB are allowed to wander around aimlessly not knowing or caring that they are infected and spreading the disease. When they are identified they are admitted, started on appropriate therapy and then discharge themselves back into the population and lost to follow up until they show up at another health care facility with no records and don't announce they have the disease. The cycle of inadequate therapy is repeated over and over. Hence, drug resistant TB. It happens all the time and I have seen it firsthand too many times.
Ebola like TB is not "easy" to catch in its early stages, but it's relatively short incubation period, high mortality rate over a short period of time, and no curative agent makes it a completely different infectious disease worthy of immense precaution. Look at the current accelerating rate of infectivity and mortality in West Africa in less than one year. With no vaccine and no curative agent, strict Isolation and Quarantine are the only effective tools at this point to prevent a Pandemic.
Dr. Lloyd Lautner Emergency Medicine
The emergence of resistant TB is largely if not completely due to the abandonment of isolation and quarantine of active cases. There was a time when active TB patients were isolated and forced to COMPLETE a course of curative antibiotic therapy before allowed back into the general population. TB was under control and resistant strains did not exist. Not so anymore.
Irresponsible individuals (homeless, transients, drug addicts, mentally impaired, etc.) with active TB are allowed to wander around aimlessly not knowing or caring that they are infected and spreading the disease. When they are identified they are admitted, started on appropriate therapy and then discharge themselves back into the population and lost to follow up until they show up at another health care facility with no records and don't announce they have the disease. The cycle of inadequate therapy is repeated over and over. Hence, drug resistant TB. It happens all the time and I have seen it firsthand too many times.
Ebola like TB is not "easy" to catch in its early stages, but it's relatively short incubation period, high mortality rate over a short period of time, and no curative agent makes it a completely different infectious disease worthy of immense precaution. Look at the current accelerating rate of infectivity and mortality in West Africa in less than one year. With no vaccine and no curative agent, strict Isolation and Quarantine are the only effective tools at this point to prevent a Pandemic.
10-29-2014 | 06:21 AM
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