Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The white plague

Describes outpatient treatment of TB, mainly among immigrants.

However, most of us who worked with the Indian Health Service saw TB, new or old cases...

The REAL danger is not TB per se, but undiagnosed TB, and the dirty little fact that if you have HIV and TB, you never will be cured...leading to more drug resistance.

In the past, if you had TB you were kept out of the USA-- immigrants were screened. However, with the large number of illegal aliens, no one knows who has tb-- and lots of them work in the food or service industries, where they could spread it to others...

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