Thread: Drug-resistant TB from Foreign Countries

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Drug-resistant TB worries officials
BY JENNIFER C. SMITH
The Monitor

REYNOSA — Pharmacy saleswoman Manuela Escobar Muñez quickly found at least three small cartons of antibiotics used to treat tuberculosis at the Farmacia Benavides on Avenida Miguel Alemán.

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THANKS for posting this butterbean- all those persons and corporations and media and goverement officals who are throwing out the welcome wagon for illegals and how great they are - never mention the TB- epidemic . this should be mentioned in all contacts with elected officials etc-
It really blows the myth of " we are gooda people we only coma here to take jobs that the Lazy Stupid Americans wont do.

Add to the TB...HIV..a large percentage of the illegals carry HIV....we had a post here a few months back...I can't remember the thread, doggone it...but Tyson chicken plant in Arkansas was raided...40 of the 200 workers had MDR TB...all illegals. I stopped buying anything Tyson produces. I figure all those processing plants hire illegals...so I look at chicken with a jaundiced eye...

RR

Originally Posted by RoadRunner

Add to the TB...HIV..a large percentage of the illegals carry HIV....we had a post here a few months back...I can't remember the thread, doggone it...but Tyson chicken plant in Arkansas was raided...40 of the 200 workers had MDR TB...all illegals. I stopped buying anything Tyson produces. I figure all those processing plants hire illegals...so I look at chicken with a jaundiced eye...

RR

https://www.alipac.us/ftopict-2559-tyson.html+chicken

Excerpts from http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2005/TB ... 8jun05.htm

The 37 California cases of multidrug-resistant TB, and 120 people who developed latent infections from them, cost $8.72 million in direct medical costs and contact tracing, not including administrative expenses, Dr. Royce said.

Regular TB cases can be treated in six months with about $2,000 of standard antibiotics. Multidrug-resistant TB requires 18 to 36 months of expensive -- and often toxic -- second-line drugs costing $28,000 to $1.2 million per patient.

In the past, doctors saw simpler multidrug-resistant TB with resistance to two or three drugs. But now, "Instead of resistance to two drugs, we're seeing resistance to six drugs or 11 drugs," said San Francisco's director of TB control, L. Masae Kawamura, in an interview.