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    Threat of TB at Tyson denied

    Threat of TB at Tyson denied
    Saturday, March 4, 2006
    By John I. Carney

    An employee of Tyson Foods in Shelbyville has tested positive for tuberculosis, according to complex manager Michael Sheets. The employee has been sent home, while 64 others working in the same department have been given skin tests for the disease. The company has also been educating employees about the disease.
    There was no word by 4 p.m. Friday on the skin test results from the 64 others tested.

    According to the Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition, a positive skin test for tuberculosis does not necessarily mean that the subject actually has the disease. It may only mean that the subject has been infected at some time in the past. In some cases, a negative test can also be false, in cases where the subject has such a severely defective immune system that he or she does not respond to the tuberculosis-derived protein which is injected during the skin test.

    According to Tyson director of media relations Gary Mickelson, the Shelbyville plant has more than 400 employees on the same shift as the employee who tested positive and over 900 employees in total. Mickelson said that tuberculosis is a rare disease, with only 250 cases reported in Tennessee last year. That is down from 383 cases in the year 2000.

    The incident is "not an outbreak, but there has been one person to test positive," said Sheets. He said there is no risk whatsoever of contamination as it relates the plant's products.

    "In the United States today, tuberculosis is solely transmitted by inhaling indoor air contaminated with [tuberculosis bacteria]," according to the Merck Manual. This would typically require being near a TB victim who is coughing. The bacteria can remain in the air for several hours. The fact that the disease is transmitted only by airborne means rules out transmission by foods or surfaces. TB is most easily transmitted in situations where people are forced to live in close proximity, such as due to poverty.


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    Not surprising that we have these dieases coming into our country. My sister-in-law worked at a local furniture company here in NC and one of the Mexican workers came down with the red measles. All that were in contact with this woman had to go to the company doctor for tests or vaccinations. It's a crying shame that dieases that were almost totally wiped out here in the US are being re-introduced to us by illegals who come here without proper immunizations . My dad lived in Texas for about 10 years, just 20 miles from the Mexican border. There were alot of illegals slipping across the border then(about 25 years ago). My dad worked in close proximity with these illegals. He developed TB and suffered many years from this illness. The TB was brought into this country by an illegal he was working with. Today, my dad has severe scarring in his lungs and still has to visit the VA hospital on a regular basis to be checked out. This is one reason that I am so involved in this fight against illegal immigration, it has already caused harm to my family. My worry now is that my children and grandchildren could suffer the same thing my dad did.
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    And whooping cough. There was a case here a few weeks ago.
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    This is getting more and more prevalent

    And we are supposed to trust and eat what is coming out of these plants? I do not buy Tyson or Marshall Durbin!


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    Illegal immigrant infected with TB in hiding



    06:37 PM PST on Thursday, December 22, 2005


    By JANE McCARTHY / KING 5 News

    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – A Mount Vernon man has a highly contagious disease that's potentially fatal, but when he heard that county health officials might turn him into immigration officials, he fled from quarantine.

    The case revolves around an undocumented immigrant whose tuberculosis treatment is costing Skagit County some $16,000 and counting. But while he is still being treated by health department nurses, he is in hiding, worried he will be sent back to Mexico.

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    Ricardo is in hiding, but is still being treated by health department nurses.

    KING 5 met 25-year-old Ricardo at an undisclosed location. Speaking through an interpreter, he said he's beating tuberculosis, but he feels bad about what transpired with the Skagit County Department of Health and he is scared.

    The conflict began when the health department quarantined him in a hotel and began treating him for his near fatal disease.

    "They said the costs were too high and so they wanted to call the INS on him, and so he got tipped off by a nurse and he is in hiding," said the interpreter.

    Thursday, dozens of people came to protect what they call the unfair treatment of Ricardo by the health department.

    "It's about people and it's about treating people like human beings and not like aliens," said Esmael Lopez.

    The group blames public health director Peter Browning who, they say, threatened to call immigration officials to relieve himself of Ricardo and his financial burden.

    "Our job is to protect 111,000 people and if we bankrupt our county so that we can't run an effective health department, then we have not done our job," said Browning.

    Browning admits that he did go to the state about the best way to handle Ricardo's costly treatment, but only briefly talked about deportation.

    "One of the many options that were brought up at that point was that there was an INS hospital in Tacoma that might be an option," he said.

    In the end, Browning disregarded that option, specifically because he didn't want anyone to be fearful of coming for help.

    "They're perpetuating this notion that we are not a trustworthy place to go and we have never, ever turned anyone into INS," he said.

    Browning says he's never called immigration on a patient and likely never will unless it was a matter of life or death. But protesters argue that calling immigration should never be an option.


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    Hattiesburg 06/25/05
    Workers Test Negative for Tuberculosis

    State health officials say a confirmed case of tuberculosis in Forrest County was an isolated case. The case was found in a worker at the Marshall Durbin Poultry Plant in Hattiesburg. Health officials began investigating the case about a month ago after a worker was diagnosed with TB by a private physician. The investigation led authorities to begin testing about 100 employees at the chicken processing plant. Another 50 close personal contacts were tested, and all of those results came back negative.

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    ALABAMA: TB Discovered at Jasper Chicken Processing Plant

    Associated Press (06.16.05) - Friday, June 17, 2005

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    About 100 employees of a Jasper chicken processing plant were exposed to TB, but state health officials said none have an active case of the infection and there is no cause for concern for the general public. The 100 workers at the Marshall Durbin plant who tested positive for TB have been given chest X-rays, and the results could be available Friday, said Karen Landers, area health officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health. More than 200 plant employees who worked closely with a former colleague who tested positive for TB were interviewed to help determine their TB risk level and then tested. "We have tested all the workers on the shift in which the person with the disease worked and there is no indication at this time that anyone has the disease," said Landers. In a written statement, the company said its primary concern is its employees' safety and ensuring that its plants produce quality, safe-to-consume products.
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    BROKEN BOW, OK
    41 Chicken Plant Workers Infected with Tuberculosis
    5/1/2005

    41 of the 222 workers tested for tuberculosis at a chicken plant in Broken Bow, OK have tested positive for exposure, Oklahoma State Health Department workers say. Health workers began testing workers at the Tyson Foods chicken plant after a worker there was diagnosed with the tuberculosis disease. "Initially, I think they selected 18 individuals to test that had the closest amount of contact with the infected individual and they found about half of those to be infected," said Oklahoma's Tuberculosis Control Officer, Dr. Jon Tillinghast. "So they expanded the numbers of individuals to be screened." Health workers say it is -possible- some of the 41 workers who have tested positive were exposed years ago from unrelated cases, and did not get tested until now.
    Dr. Tillinghast said there should NOT be any concern about chicken from the plant because he said the disease cannot be transmitted through food. T-B is a serious disease that normally attacks the lungs and is spread through coughing, sneezing, or even speaking. Tillinghast says T-B is generally treated with six-months of antibiotic treatment. "We do know that a certain number of individuals with newly acquired infection will progress to disease within a year or two after they become infected," Tillinghast said.
    at a Broken Bow, Oklahoma chicken plant are being tested for tuberculosis after an employee at the plant was confirmed to have the disease, state health officials said Friday. McCurtain County Health Department Administrator Rhonda Davis says the 222 employees were given skin tests. Those tests are being evaluated by a doctor at the State Health Department in Oklahoma City. That doctor is then determining which persons require x-rays or further testing.

    Doctor John Tillinghast with the state Health Department says product from the plant is NOT affected, the Associated Press reported Friday. Tillinghast said T-B is transmitted by breathing infected bacteria and that chicken from the plant is not affected. T-B is a serious disease that normally attacks the lungs and is spread through coughing, sneezing, or even speaking. It's treated with antibiotics.

    Chicken Plant Employees Tested for Tuberculosis (At least 90 workers being tested for Tuberculosis)
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    At least 90 workers at the Marshall Durbin chicken processing plant in Hattiesburg are being tested for tuberculosis.

    State health officials confirm one case of active tuberculosis in a Marshall Durbin employee. Officials say they are conducting routine testing of the employee's household and social contacts, as well as worksite contacts.

    The 90 workers are being given a tuberculin skin test and any person who tests positive will then be given a chest xray.

    Officials say the number of employees to be tested could expand depending on the findings of the initial 90 workers.
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    This is nothing. Here is Santa Barbara county, one crazy illegal would not take his TB medicine. As a result he infected 56 other people. So the county put him in jail for six months, in a special quaranteen cell, and made him take his medicine. Then after six months he was deported!

    Why not just deport him in the first place? Because he would be right back again, infecting even more people!

    What pisses me off even more is my legal immigrant adopted daughter, for which we were made to pay $500 for a TB test, was in the same class with one of the people this crazy illegal infected! So far she hasn't developed TB, but might.

    Is this whole situation insane or what? It's like something out of the Twilight Zone.

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    Good idea

    Let Mexico pay for his care! Why should WE have to pay for it!
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    I know I wont be buying anything from Tysons. Illegals are coming here and spreading all kinds of diseases everywhere. Sicknesses that have become obsolete in our country, are now springing up all over.
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    Butterbean- I haven't bought Tyson product since last May. They said that the public was not in danger, Suuuuure I for one am not taking that chance. GROSS!!!
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