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...percent of those developing an active case of the disease. The current test for tuberculosis involves intensive laboratory testing and takes approximately one week to get the results. Because the Gen-Probe test missed five percent of the time, all patients will still be required to take the standard TB tests...
...interrogated about a hundred times at Lefortovo prison, always under bright lights, Potashov was sentenced to 13 years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly...
However, aside from the financial costs to the state, there are other more important issues to examine, first and foremost being what is the cost to society? There is the health issue to consider. When illegal immigrant children are denied basic immunizations, what happens when those children contract TB and play at the local park with other children? The potential for the spread of disease and illness to the general population is immense. Moreover, illegal immigrants will be provided high cost emergency medical care that could have been avoided had they obtained the basic medical care Proposition 187 denies...
...illness like tuberculosis, the immune system kills the body's own cells in the localized areas where TB germs have taken hold, including the lungs or the bones. With staph or strep, the sheer volume of disease-fighting immune cells can overload blood vessels, ripping tiny tears in the vessel linings; toxins can also damage the vessels directly. Plasma begins to leak out of the bloodstream; blood pressure drops, organs fail, and the body falls into a state of shock. In cholera, bacterial toxins attack intestinal cells, triggering diarrhea, catastrophic dehydration and death...
Tuberculosis, too, has learned how to outwit the doctors. TB is an unusually tough microbe, so the standard therapy calls for several antibiotics, given together over six months. The length and complexity of the treatment have kept underdeveloped nations from making much progress against even ordinary TB. But now several strains have emerged in the U.S. and other developed countries that can't be treated with common antibiotics...