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    Exclusive: Patient With Extreme Form of TB Sent to NIH

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    JUN 8 2015, 6:53 PM ET

    Exclusive: Patient With Extreme Form of TB Sent to NIH

    by MAGGIE FOX
    usive: Patient With Extreme Form of TB Sent to NIH

    A female patient with an extremely hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis is being treated at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington D.C., and federal and state officials are now tracking down hundreds of people who may have been in contact with her.
    The woman traveled to at least three states before she sought treatment from a U.S. doctor. While TB is not easily caught by casual contact, extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB is so dangerous that health officials will have to make a concerted effort to warn anyone who may be at risk.

    "The patient was transferred to the NIH via special air and ground ambulances," the NIH said in a statement.
    "THE PATIENT WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE NIH VIA SPECIAL AIR AND GROUND AMBULANCES."

    "The patient is staying in an isolation room in the NIH Clinical Center specifically designed for handling patients with respiratory infections, including XDR-TB. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, is providing care and treatment for the patient in connection with an existing NIH clinical protocol for treating TB, including XDR forms. NIAID has treated other XDR-TB patients in the past under this protocol," the NIH said.

    These special isolation rooms usually control air flow to prevent germs from escaping into the rest of the hospital or outside.

    The patient, who isn't being identified in any way, may face months or even years of treatment. Ordinary TB is hard to treat and requires, at a minimum, weeks of antibiotics. XDR-TB resists the effects of almost all the known TB drugs. Sometimes patients have to have pockets of infection surgically removed.

    It's not clear why the patient traveled so much before seeking treatment, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
    "The patient traveled in April from India to the United States through Chicago O'Hare airport," the CDC said in a statement provided to NBC News.

    "The patient also spent time in Missouri and Tennessee. Seven weeks after arriving in the United States, the patient sought treatment for and was diagnosed with active TB."

    She was isolated in a suburban Chicago hospital before she was sent to NIH.

    CDC and NIH are testing the patient to see what drugs may help her.

    "Besides concerns about community contacts, the patient flew from India to the United States. CDC will obtain the passenger manifest for that flight from the airline and will begin a contact investigation. Although the risk of getting a contagious disease on an airplane is low, public health officers sometimes need to find and alert travelers who may have been exposed to an ill passenger," CDC said.

    CDC takes these cases very seriously. In 2007 Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, was arrested and forcibly isolated under federal order after he defied CDC advisories and flew out of the country to get married.

    XDR-TB is very rare in the U.S. CDC says it got reports of 63 cases between 1993 and 2011.

    "TB bacteria are put into the air when a person with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, sneezes, shouts, or sings," CDC says. "These bacteria can float in the air for several hours, depending on the environment. Persons who breathe in the air containing these TB bacteria can become infected."
    "THE PATIENT TRAVELED IN APRIL FROM INDIA TO THE UNITED STATES THROUGH CHICAGO O'HARE AIRPORT."
    People with lowered immunity, especially HIV patients, are most at risk.

    "All travelers should avoid high risk settings where there are no infection control measures in place. Documented places where transmission has occurred include crowded hospitals, prisons, homeless shelters, and other settings where susceptible persons come in contact with persons with TB disease," CDC advises.

    The average cost of treating multidrug-resistant TB is $134,000, compared to $17,000 for a normal case. That can shoot up to $430,000 for an extensively resistant case. It's not clear who will pay for this patient's treatment.

    Nine million people are infected with TB every year, including 9,000 people in the U.S.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health...nt-nih-n371806



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    Coulter Hammers Obama Administration For Hiding Identity, Immigration Status Of Forei

    Coulter Hammers Obama Administration For Hiding Identity, Immigration Status Of Foreigner Who Brought In Extreme Tuberculosis

    by Matthew Boyle
    8 Jun 2015
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    Ann Coulter, the 10-time New York Times bestselling author who just came out with a new book, Adios America, about immigration, is ripping President Barack Obama’s National Institute of Health (NIH) for hiding the identity and immigration status of a foreigner from India who brought extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis into the United States.

    “I see why they won’t give out her name—at least until the U.S. taxpayer is forced to pay for her nearly half-million dollar treatment,” Coulter said in an email late Monday. “If we’re paying, we get her name. But why won’t the government tell us if she’s an immigrant—i.e. whether government policy brought a drug resistant disease to our shores? Could they at least tell us if she was transporting 12-year-old sex slaves to America, like that other model Indian immigrant, Lakireddy Bali Reddy?”


    Mugshot of Lakireddy Bali Reddy

    Bali Reddy, the other Indian immigrant to whom Coulter refers, was convicted of using America’s weakly enforced immigration system to run a giant sex trafficking ring with minor women.

    Coulter’s reaction to the Obama administration’s health authorities hiding the identity of the foreigner from India—whose immigration status is unknown—comes after an NBC News report that that foreigner brought into the United States a severe case of drug resistant tuberculosis.

    “A female patient with an extremely hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis is being treated at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington D.C., and federal and state officials are now tracking down hundreds of people who may have been in contact with her,” NBC News’ Maggie Fox wrote. “The woman traveled to at least three states before she sought treatment from a U.S. doctor. While TB is not easily caught by casual contact, extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB is so dangerous that health officials will have to make a concerted effort to warn anyone who may be at risk.”

    “The patient was transferred to the NIH via special air and ground ambulances,” the NIH, the official federal government health facility just outside Washington, D.C., told NBC. “The patient is staying in an isolation room in the NIH Clinical Center specifically designed for handling patients with respiratory infections, including XDR-TB. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, is providing care and treatment for the patient in connection with an existing NIH clinical protocol for treating TB, including XDR forms. NIAID has treated other XDR-TB patients in the past under this protocol,”

    With this strain deadly tuberculosis, NBC News noted, only about a third to half of cases can be cured.

    It wasn’t until later in the story that NBC News—and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—revealed the person afflicted was a foreigner from India.

    “It’s not clear why the patient traveled so much before seeking treatment, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says,” NBC News wrote, before quoting CDC which made the admission.

    “The patient traveled in April from India to the United States through Chicago O’Hare airport,” the CDC told NBC News. “The patient also spent time in Missouri and Tennessee. Seven weeks after arriving in the United States, the patient sought treatment for and was diagnosed with active TB.”

    Coulter’s new book, Adios America: The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hellhole, details several instances where the government and mainstream media cover up the fact that immigration policy in many cases leads to instances like the tuberculosis one unfolding right now. Coulter’s book also hammers former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and especially Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), for their support for open borders immigration policies that continue to bring people into America that harm instead of help the country. Rubio’s team has consistently refused to respond to Coulter’s book, even though the senator continues to push for amnesty for illegal aliens.

    This is hardly the only time that immigration has played into vital national health issues in recent months. Of course, right before the midterm elections, the Ebola scare in Africa migrated to America as a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, lied to immigration officials to get out of his Ebola-stricken nation into the United States. Before he died, he infected several America health professionals. The situation could have been entirely avoidable has President Obama shut off immigration to and from Liberia and other Ebola-inflicted nations.

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-tuberculosis/
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