TB coming back in America?

[Truthseeker]

Tuberculosis appear to threaten flare-up thanks to TNF blockers. Does anyone know how bad it can get? What can one do to help himself and his family?


"Tuberculosis kills 3, sickens 26 in Alabama" Fox News, January 8, 2016, foxnews.com

"TNF-blocking agents and tuberculosis: new drugs illuminate an old topic" J. Keane, Rheumatology, rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org

[Catholicity]

Tuberculosis appear to threaten flare-up thanks to TNF blockers. Does anyone know how bad it can get? What can one do to help himself and his family?


"Tuberculosis kills 3, sickens 26 in Alabama" Fox News, January 8, 2016, foxnews.com

"TNF-blocking agents and tuberculosis: new drugs illuminate an old topic" J. Keane, Rheumatology, rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org

Nothing until a safer vaccine is available to the public. And stay away from anything you need a tinfoil hat afterward. FYI read the article, this stuff has never been totally eeradicated, its around it small numbers. My advice? Don't drink the water in Mexico, take the FULL course of ABX your doc prescribes and stay away from money grubbing quacks.

[Carrikature]

this stuff has never been totally eeradicated, its around it small numbers.

When my wife worked at the county hospital, she regularly encountered patients with TB.

[rogue06]

When my wife worked at the county hospital, she regularly encountered patients with TB.

Interesting considering that FWIU TB has become so rare here (less than 9500 new cases in 2014) that the vaccine for it is no longer widely used in the United States.

[Raphael]

Interesting considering that FWIU TB has become so rare here (less than 9500 new cases in 2014) that the vaccine for it is no longer widely used in the United States.

Where I originate from it's pretty common. Infact when emigrating part of my medicals included chest x-rays specifically to look for TB. And because my middle two daughters were born within 5 years of us leaving South Africa, they received the vaccine shortly after birth.

[Catholicity]

When my wife worked at the county hospital, she regularly encountered patients with TB.

Every hospital I've ever been in has a TB room. While the number of people who actually have active TB is low in the US, there are always a few cases each year especially in areas where hygiene, homelessness needle sharing (another reason not to do drugs) and those with very door immune systems.

[Carrikature]

Interesting considering that FWIU TB has become so rare here (less than 9500 new cases in 2014) that the vaccine for it is no longer widely used in the United States.

They didn't get vaccines, just annual testing.