Well its the weird things running through my mind at 3am post , last night it was TB im old enough to remember a friends mum dying of it when we were at junior school . But these days its becoming a monster of our own creation ,once upon a time you would be sent to an isolation hospital till you were cured , these days they just hand out antibiotics and you take them if you can be bothered or when it gets noticibly worse . In a lot of cases its mutated into antibiotic resistance . They stopped vacinating teenagers back in 2005 doubtless on cost grounds and now its only given to babies from at risk groups well thats what it says on the government website , i think thats code for incomers from exotic places . im curious are all the incomers automatically tested for TB these days, i cant find an answer to that one anywhere. I dont need a crystal ball to see where this going , its transmittable by people living in close confines and just one person can spread it a very long way . Back in the 90s we had outbreaks in Hull and Scunthorpe and they were quickly testing folks and treating them . So this thought has been triggered by the large outbreak in Kansas USA . You can no longer isolate people due to their human rights so is it chuck a packet of antibiotics at folks and hope they take them?
Anti biotics are not working. I know a person with t.b. Has been treated for years but not cured. Still coughing and flying frequently. Doc says, "Not contagious" but how did they get it then?
ReplyDeleteMy friend's mother had tb in the late 80's (never found out where she got it). She had antibiotics that cost like 200 pounds PER PILL. Another one was cheaper, it was around 90 punds/pill. Luckily here you don't pay tb medicines yourself.
ReplyDeleteVaccinations stopped here because the variant they were efficient was easily treated with antibiotics, but we had another multi antibiotic resistant variants that were also resistant to vaccine... If you have been in russian jail you'd be in deep trouble... It was easier and cheaper to offer vaccine only those really vulnerable (like babies with heart problems and yes of those from high-risk countries like russia or Ukraine) and treat other with medication. Funny how things get so complicated nowadays.
But I'm not worried about tb. I'm worried about bird flu - yep, because of US and the orange baby in charge.
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I wanted bear to be immunised against TB. Too many branches of my family have deaths from TB on them. I asked at the GPs and they wouldn't consider it. I even thought about going privately but it would have been a tough journey from Leeds to Hull, plus the cost and then I found out that the current vaccine isn't considered particularly effective. I wish that they would put some money into getting it sorted out as it can be a dreadful scourge.
ReplyDeletebtw apparently thalidomide is a good treatment for TB but I can't see it being widely prescribed here.