Quote Originally Posted by posylady View Post
This is why there was a immigration physicals before and after entering our country. The ones that didn't pass the physicals were sent back to their own countries. How many people were these TB carriers in contact with? Where do they live, How many were these second contacts in contact with. This could eventually end up being 1000's of cases of TB.
Treatment for MDR TB begins only after the patient is observed to be resistant to the standard four drug protocol.
It looks like they treat first with the 4 drugs that cure standard TB, and only when those aren't effective do they diagnose the MDR TB. During the time of the original treatment, those immigrants are probably allowed into the U.S. because after being treated for a short period of time, they are usually no longer contagious and they continue their treatment here. Once their treatment is done, docs are realizing that the TB is still active and treating again.

We owe these older Hmong people a tremendous debt of gratitude for risking their lives to help our soldiers in Vietnam and Laos (no, we weren't supposed to be in Laos, but we were). Some paid the ultimate price.