Swine Flue outbreak in Mexico, US; 20 confirmed dead.

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Barrister

#120
April 28, 2009, 01:12:48 PM
TB is making a real comeback due to the development of some highly drug-resistant varieties.

My wife has had to be tested for TB due to working in the jail. <_<
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Neil

#121
April 28, 2009, 01:18:35 PM
Quote from: Habsburg on April 28, 2009, 01:10:34 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 28, 2009, 08:19:28 AM
What's TB?

Consumption, what Legend Kidman died of at the end of Moulin Rouge!
Nicole Kidman wasn't in Legend.  That was Tom Cruise and Mia Sara.
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Malthus

#122
April 28, 2009, 01:22:22 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 28, 2009, 01:12:48 PM
TB is making a real comeback due to the development of some highly drug-resistant varieties.

My wife has had to be tested for TB due to working in the jail. <_<

Certainly; but it remains the case that TB is strongly causually linked to "poverty". It is stereoypically a disease of the poor (and of course prisioners in jail fit that bill). This was true in the past and remains true today.

Citation: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1696420&blobtype=pdf

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Berkut

#123
April 28, 2009, 01:29:29 PM
Quote from: Brazen on April 28, 2009, 08:15:34 AM
There were 69,000 deaths from TB in Europe in 2002, 46,000 in The Americas in the same period and 749 in the US in 2001. It's not just a developing world problem. It just doesn't have the glamour of the pandemic prefix or the association with an animal.

How much is spent fighting it every year?

I bet it is a lot.
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fhdz

#124
April 28, 2009, 01:37:05 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 28, 2009, 07:43:35 AM
Maybe some tiger penis will help?

You know Seedy's not around as much anymore when other people have to dial in his jokes.
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ulmont

#125
April 28, 2009, 01:42:26 PM
Quote from: Berkut on April 28, 2009, 01:29:29 PM
How much is spent fighting it every year?

Just under $3 billion US, with something like $4.3 billion needed to hit the WHO's target, if I'm reading this report correctly.
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/chapter3.pd

Mr.Penguin

#126
April 28, 2009, 01:48:06 PM
Breaking news from the BBC website:

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declares state of emergency over flu threat... :huh:
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Berkut

#127
April 28, 2009, 01:49:44 PM
Quote from: ulmont on April 28, 2009, 01:42:26 PM
Quote from: Berkut on April 28, 2009, 01:29:29 PM
How much is spent fighting it every year?

Just under $3 billion US, with something like $4.3 billion needed to hit the WHO's target, if I'm reading this report correctly.
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/chapter3.pd

I kind of suspected that would be the case.

It's like when people say that apparently nobody cares about vehicle fatalities, because we spend $X on some other issue, when in fact so many more people die in car accidents.

The reality is of course that we spend an insane amount of money trying to prevent vehicular fatalities.

I imagine that if we spent $4.3 billion/year, the target number would be $6 billion.
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Ed Anger

#128
April 28, 2009, 01:59:22 PM
Ed Anger Disease diary: day 2

Temp: around 97
No cough
Got a case of the squirts though. Shouldn't have used that sugar feee syrup with sobitol in it.
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Neil

#129
April 28, 2009, 02:04:28 PM
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on April 28, 2009, 01:48:06 PM
Breaking news from the BBC website:

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declares state of emergency over flu threat... :huh:
Makes sense.  California has terrible health care and is full of filthy Mexicans, who are most vulnerable to the disease.
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Darth Wagtaros

#130
April 28, 2009, 02:37:22 PM
I hope Jaron isn't dead.
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lustindarkness

#131
April 28, 2009, 02:48:12 PM
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Martinus

#132
April 28, 2009, 02:59:10 PM
I have cough and sniffles. I r: deaded. :(
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