Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Georgia man with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis...How and where did he get TB

The Georgia man with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis...How and where did he get TB?

Respiratory Diseases - 4 Answers
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1 :
i would have to say his father in law - the man is a biochemical engineer (or something like that) and he researches TB in his labs (hmmm....sounds like more than a coincidence to me)
2 :
They don't know that yet. They assume he got it from another person, but don't know as of yet.
3 :
If you live in a town with more then 40,000 people in it, I am sure you have talked to, exchanged money with or been served by someone who has TB sometime with in the last year. TB is more common then most people think. Just because someone is positive for TB it doesn't mean they are contagious. At one time, and there are books out there to prove this, the medical community thought that TB was gone forever. Education and prevention dropped the number of cases world wide to next to nothing. Then HIV started to make its run. These immune deficient patients started to spread TB and by the mid 1980s TB was on the rise again. I have a friend who was told in his 1980 respiratory therapy class that he would never see a case of TB. That instructor was wrong. Did you know that TB (Mycobacterium) is the same bacteria that causes leprosy?
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His father-in-law is a TB researcher at the CDC... http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/UPDATES01/70531015 conspiracy? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AryGngMJeu8h_Wt80Lam5PHsy6IX?qid=20070601053442AAdKB77&show=7#profile-info-KiZJRtkjaa Then he was going to his wedding and honeymoon...what a gift to give your wife

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