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2006-11-24 Africa Subsaharan

S Africa: 300+ cases of extensively drug-resistant TB

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Posted by .com 2006-11-24 02:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 With their infrastructure collapsing and a central government more interested in pursuing ANC objectives than its peoples' needs, it will get worse. Much worse.

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-24 13:44|| 2006-11-24 13:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Good, may reduce their numbers. Stop all entrants from this cesspool into US, that's all I care about.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-24 13:58|| 2006-11-24 13:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Nope, that's not going to work. We live in a global world. XDR-TB is going to make its appearance in the western world -- already has in Eastern Europe. Just a matter of time.

I may have to brush up my understanding of thoracoplasties.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-11-24 14:52|| 2006-11-24 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Agreed. I've a feeling this is gonna spread, not just through Africa, but into Asia.

And for SpecOp35: it takes just one. Could come from Africa, but more likely India, Pakistan, Singapore, Dubai, Canada. Tell me how that's gonna get blocked, genius.

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-24 22:09|| 2006-11-24 22:09|| Front Page Top

#5 The patients "are in the hospitals, they are on treatment,"

Until they feel a bit better, then they skip the rest of their antibiotic treatment, if they are even offered the remainder, and they head back home to give it to everybody else they love. They don't do it out of malice, they do it out of ignorance. Sort of like farm animals are pumped full of antibiotics in western countries. At least the cows are smart enough that they don't get up and leave in the middle though. :-)

The only solution I can think of is to make treatment available only in western-run hospitals, and admission is a one-way ticket. Until the doctors are done with the patients, and not the other way around, nobody goes out the door vertically. No bribery, no nothing. Take a DNA-match child as collateral if you need to.

No, I don't have a clue who's going to pay for this.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-24 22:42|| 2006-11-24 22:42|| Front Page Top

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