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POPSTB is Preventable - Duh! People, it seems, love to forget past disasters or simply believe that old scourges don't happen here. Between 1910 and 1950 fighting TB was taken seriously. Once it got under "control" in developed nations - we began forgetting. Who remembers that Christmas Seals were sold to raise money to fight TB? Not many. Who remembers simple methods to prevent its spread - not many it seems.
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POPSTB Older, Much Older than we thought TB has been scourge robbing humankind of precious breath for 500,000 years. Maybe simplest translation of "Blessed are the poor in spirit" is a lot more direct than many theologians think too. TB was all too common in "Biblical" times. So, perhaps Jesus was simply saying - Blessed are those with TB. So that people would not think them as being punished and as worthy of Jesus' love and theirs. At any rate TB has been around for eons and is now making a come back due to lack of money for prevention and drugs. And it is taking new forms that are harder to fight. Christmas Seals, a tradition in USA and sold by Red Cross began as a fund raising effort to defeat TB in US.
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POPSTB? MD's Seem to Have Forgotten Too - At Patient's Risk Duh! Cancer patients are more at risk because treatments often lower their immune system's abilities. So you would think managers of a cancer clinic would be more careful about screening for the spread of infectious diseases in their facilities. They are not immune from having short memories or assuming that they are doing everything they should be for their patient's safety, when in fact they need to regularly scan the horizon for new and old threats. Shameful!
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POPSLunar New Year Poultry Production Drives Pandemic Risk In China, Viet Nam and South Korea Lunar New Year, or Tet celebrations are "gotta" have live chicken, goose, or duck to good luck and prosperity. This brings millions and millions of birds to holding pens for sale at just the right time. And it provides perfect breading ground for new/old flu and for a novel or new pandemic flu derived from bird flu. Wake up folks - culling alone will not stop millions of farmers from doing whatever they have to do to make the cash they need for their family's prosperity.
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POPSHow TB and Pandemic Scourges Get Passed Along How mobile are we today? How ignorant are people about ancient and present day public health dangers? How self-absorbed are some about "their good" but not at all about the good of the community or friends? That's today's formula for spreading disease that can reach you and your family!
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POPSTB on March Again? TB, once though beaten, is making a comeback, due to our own lack of foresight, greed and just being plain dumb about how nature works as a system - and how we cannot pretend that we are apart from nature!
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POPSDespite having a cure, TB is number 1 killer The reason TB is making a comeback globally - same as other things $$$ - It's money honey. It's spreading among poor who live in close quarters and rich figure it won't get to them because they are not poor! That's attitude behind comeback of all diseases that we thought controlled. Maybe next dominate species will be smarter than we humans - grin/groan.
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POPSTurkey - TB World Capital? Unbelievable but apparently true. While world sleeps TB makes big comeback in Turkey, Russia and Southern Africa. That makes new resistant types of TB, only hours away using global flights as the way to speedily transmit the next pandemic.
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