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Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again
Iphtashu Fitz writes "The journal Nature Medicine is due to release a report today on how highly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are on the verge of becoming a global epidimic. Strains of TB that are highly resistant to antibiotics are becoming increasingly prevalent in places like Russia, eastern Europe, and China, and only small changes are required to make these strains start spreading quickly. Treatment for multiple-drug-resistant strains of TB requires a carefully monitored cocktail of drugs taken for months on end, a regimin that many, especially in poorer countries are unlikely to follow to completion. The strategy used by the World Health Organization to combat TB, the "directly observed treatment, short course" or DOTS, involves using trained health workers to watch patients take their long courses of drugs, since even a little carelessness could result in TB mutating into a more drug resistant form within the patient." Oh, Alexander Fleming ? where art thou now?
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
Which is why we have to kill nature off. If we killed all the freaking monkeys 50 years ago, there would be no flipping AIDS epidemic to worry about. If we can kill off the rest of nature, with the exception of the vegitation, then we won't have to worry as much about this crap.
Then if someone has a communicable disease, we just kill them off. Six billion people, we can get rid of a few hundred million, no problem.
Then we can live in a disease free world if we stay vigilant.
this is a direct result of Illigal Imigration and not health screening people wanting to enter the US. y.
Yeah, its interesting/amusing what gets classified as an epidemic. AIDS is an epidemic where there are ~ 42 million people living with it (tested positive for the HIV virus, not necessarily sick or whatever), and ~ 3.1 million people die from it annually.
TB is _not_ an epidemic, but it infects an estimated 8.7 million people a year and kills 2 million a year despite widespread control efforts.
Some 6600 people have contracted SARS worldwide, and that _is_ an epidemic.
Influenza (flu) is said to be a seasonally epidemic kinda thing where about 20,000 people die a year, but thats not scary enough for the news (although they pushed it last winter in the US a little). Its not too exciting, because most (90%) of the people that die are over 65. It was a "big epidemic" in 1918 when 500,000 people died from it.
AIDS is the best. Its an untreatable/uncurable disease that is supposedly spread by contact with fluids such as blood or sex goo. We've all been told that "AIDS does not discrimiate", but it does! In the US, its mostly black gay men (and some IV drug users) that get it, whereas in Africa its black heterosexual women that get it. After 20 years and I'm guessing millions if not billions of dollars in research have not even provided any kind of explanation of AIDS nor has the virus even been isolated.
here is some more causes of death info, here is more death info. Its interesting because the last link because it puts wars, random human-to-human violence, drowning, traffic accidents, and diarrhea above AIDS.
Also, I belive that suicide is somewhere in the top 20 causes of death _across all age groups_ in the US, but noone cares about that.
Hey, sand nigger, the H1B visa guys fucked up his industry and gave him a disease. The spics would only give him the disease (and do his gardening). That's why you H1B motherfuckers should be deported, into the ocean with no vests. Go back to you shit-ass little countries. You'd still be dancing around a fire if it wasn't for us.
What a pathetic load of crap. Please try to keep your facile fortune cookie-isms to yourself.
Bill Gates' "bad deeds" are in the minds of a few pathetic, bitter nerds who resent his success.
His "good deeds" are in helping to stop real suffering and to generally make the world a better place.
Grow up, nerd. Microsoft's misdeads are entirely in your mind and in the minds of their competitors, and the cheap politicans whom their competitors have bought out.