Extremely Drug Resistant Tuberculosis XDR-TB - VOA Story

[herringfly]

What's the point of trying to medicate people who don't have the intelligence to follow instructions to complete their treatment. The consequences are untreatable strains of TB. Napalm would be a simpler, more effective treatment.

[kinjat56]

@herringfly I think they do have the awareness but the thing is they are poor. They can't afford the medicine for over 9 months and a TB patient feels like he is 100% OK after like 2-3 months of treatment. So they end up stopping the treatment earlier which in many cases turns bad.

[trousien]

isn't there a shot that helps you become tb resistant i remember having serveral tb shots when i was a kid i know it might not stop xdrtb but eh it can help

[tacotony24]

It is only a matter of time before drug resistant TB will spread in the US. Many people in the US probably don't even know it that they already carry the TB bacteria inside their bodies.

[TheSolarGoddess]

There is already 1 documented case in Florida. A Venuzuelan kid who was studying at the University of Florida.

[btwall60]

they should give that guy a nice meal nice wine, bring him a hooker with a mask on , and then dig a hole about 12 feet deep

bt

[vxenon67]

H1N1 now we have this drug resistant Tuberculosis. My aunt died of Tuberculosis in the Philippines. I wont be shocked if this type of TB starts spreading beginning first in Peru where that guy had it and brought it into the USA.

[THEREALCANDI]

Most people fail to finish taking their medication because it gives very harsh & dangerous side effects. In my opinion if people know they have TB they should take extra precautions even while being treated & especially if they are not being treated.

[magick205]

@LDNish: Simple fucking problem? Spoken like a true 18 year old. So, in all your wisdom how do you propose to eradicate this re-emergent disease, and where will get the money and support for this?

[LDNish]

Just Metaphorically speaking that they have not been doing their jobs properly. Or not very well. But I have made a valid point though, you agree?

[TheSolarGoddess]

Honestly, I will tell anyone who will listen that you do not have to be susceptible to every new superbug and designer disease that pops up. I use the oxygentherapyprogramdotcom.

Then it truly does become a 'simple problem'.

Not spamming, people - Just saving lives.

[YummyilikeCHEese]

i had the tb vaccine

they can leave some nasty scars after

[ConstantC4]

90% of disease is spread through ignorance , why do we have so many blood brone viruses knowing they exist? they should be gone from the first world by now , but idiots will keep acting as a reservoir for the bug. always.

at least you can brute force a treatment that will be 1000% more effective covering up for the problems although we don't even have a good 50% one on many stuff..

and vaccines are very limited the immune system is easy to bypass 10% that aids haxed it good.

[magick205]

Ultimately, it's the "it can never happen to me" mindset. It always happens to the "other" because they've done something "wrong". And let's fact it, education about science in the US is not something that is really stressed. Maybe this is why we have such a problem with fundamentalists zealots. Science threatens their control over their flocks.

[ConstantC4]

It's not their it's mostly memes (not a big dawkins fan or an atheist , probably agnostic maybe not but it's not the subject here) some come from religions or are religions

it's "were going to die anyway" that deflates the value of human life so much in the eyes of said human.

other than that it's ignorance . why are busses for example allowed to be crowded and without good ventilation often (usually in developing areas) one guy caughs and he might not know he has given someone a virus.

[REALITYCHURCH]

EXACTLY!

[borderraven]

You remind me. The 5 most dangerous words: "Maybe it will get better". But, perhaps instead of treating disease, we should follow natural evolution, and let diseases drive the evolution of the human species. It is like, why spend the effort and money fighting forest fires, when fire naturally is part of the evolution of the forest? If a forest grows too thick, it chokes on itself, but fire naturally cleans, recycles, and allows new growth.

[magick205]

@borderraven: Well, considering that our evolution is now being driven by cutural/educational factors much more than environmental events I think we're already well on our way to speciation. How that affects the rest of the biosphere remains to be seen.

[KiwiBerryz]

i saw hong kong ^^

[ladylibra018]

its really hard... to see the amount of patients increases... people cannot buy the medicine... coz they lacks of money. Even though the government is doin something. Its still not enough.

[paradigmmaker]

all these epidemics are the result of an unnatural population boom.

[Talauma1]

New drugs with a shorter treatment are needed but with they will come just a bit late (by 2019).Clinical research phases of pharmaceutical companies will have to be adjusted to deliver a safe compound in the next three to five years.

[paul8kangas]

A cure has been found for TB. The treatment is free. It can be done at home. It does not require a doctor. It only requires a teacher. Bill Gates, I am just asking you to test the ability of autoimmuneurine therapy to cure TB. Start small. Test just 10 people. If it cures 6 of them, wow, that is very significant.

[LegoFan970]

If you take 10 people and put them on TB drugs, at least 9 would be cured. You would need a result similar to that to argue success. I wouldn't want to take a 60/40 chance on being cured of a potentially deadly disease.

[yelloworangered]

Illegal immigrants from Mexico are bringing it into the United States.

[SpazzyEMOwannabe]

That's not true.

[babyk1969]

this is how diseases "leak through the cracks", no matter where the disease is rearing its ugly head, it should be treated the same way! gowns, gloves....... if we did this we may have a fightinng chance!

[Wcoltd]

The TB regimen is a problem because it takes at least 6 - 9 months, it is very difficult to keep on that regimen and failing to do so increases the risk that the disease develops an immunity to the drug, when this is the case, the resistant strains tend to be more deadly. The mortality in people with typical TB is around 30% WITHOUT treatment where strains of MDR-TB are 50% WITH treatment.

Also, the Skin test can turn out false positives giving many needless risk for kidney failure.

[teamvezon10]

my grandad in india has TB :( hes had it for 49 years in total, hes 85, :( at least my dads family (english) don't have it :)

[daltonagre]

Tuberculosis is a great health problem again.I live in Brazil.

[tacotony24]

I know someone with tuberculosis so when a US clinic refused to treat him because he does not have any money, he went through life inadvertently infecting people. He may have infected more than 5,000 people as far as I know.

[atebane]

wow, you must have been bringing hoards of people into health clinics for TB skin tests!

[mustafuk]

On July 29, 1969, only days after the Department of Defense asked for $10 million from Congress to fund the development of a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired " the chairman of the Republican Task Force on Earth Resources and Population, G. H. W. Bush, U.S. Representative from Texas, 7th District (1967/71), stressed the pressing need for population control to fend off "a growing Third World crisis."

[mustafuk]

On July 29, 1969, only days after the Department of Defense asked for $10 million from Congress to fund the development of a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired " the chairman of the Republican Task Force on Earth Resources and Population, G. H. W. Bush, U.S. Representative from Texas, 7th District (1967/71), stressed the pressing need for population control to fend off "a growing Third World crisis."

[mustafuk]

Aids an engineered ethnic bio weapon? yes, why not? 20 years of research still no vaccine,no animal vector of the disease. and yes some people are racist

[LegoFan970]

There is a vaccine, but sadly it is ineffective on those over about 12

[AdrianaStuijt]

Note on this video that the South African patients sit together, unprotected with face masks, in outpatient clinics waiting for treatment - while the patients filmed in the Asian hospital all wear face masks and are clearly kept isolated from all other patients in the outpatient-treatment system. The South African authorities still resist any and all scientific calls to isolate suspected XDR-TB and MDR-TB patients from others visiting outpatient clinics and -hospitals.

[Raina737]

There's an article in the Denver Post (where someone actually checked out Speakers story about his marriage in Greece) and it turns out that he was NOT married, and the daughter of the Dr Cooksey is NOT his wife. This gets stranger and stranger.

[LegoFan970]

I would check your sources.

[AdrianaStuijt]

the Voice of America broadcast this only to African countries. Why is this important information not seen on mainstream USA news outlets?

[injunkayl]

this is all intentional, the N.W.O. is operating against the common man. Open your eyes and realize that this is all part of their operations to bring about a depopulation/police state agenda.

VOTE RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT IN '08!

[AdrianaStuijt]

I have 20/20 vision so don't worry about that. What exactly do you mean by a 'depopulation agenda"?

[injunkayl]

look up "depopulation agenda" or Thomas Malthus that should get you on the road to understanding.

P.s. F.y.i - Aids is an engeneered race specific bioweapon, Negros are far more susceptable and diefar far faster from it, and the red cross gives it out in their "vaccines".

[AdrianaStuijt]

This black-racist viewpoint is not science-based. XDR-TB does not discriminate whatsoever among racial groups. In South Africa, the first five patients to die of it were nurses of all race-groups.

[atebane]

i think you're crazy.

[FizixOnSnow]

"Aids is an engeneered race specific bioweapon, Negros are far more susceptable and diefar far faster from it" -injunkayl

Haha, you are partly correct (caucasians do have more resistance to AIDS than non-european descendants). BUT this is simply because of the bubonic plague. Both viruses target CCR5 on macrophages. Survivors of the plague had low or (rarely) no CCR5 on their macrophages and thus could proliferate and pass this trait. This is also why some are IMMUNE to HIV. Look it up... :p

[AdrianaStuijt]

XDR TB is now an epidemic in South Africa and has already crossed the border to neighbouring Lesotho. In South Africa it has a kill-rate of 100% and in Lesotho, the kill-rate among these new patients thus far is already 85% according to WHO's Dr De Cock.

[llsoth]

Probably nothing is going on. The safety controls they have at the CDC for infectious diseases are very good. It is a big coincidence though. Andrew Speaker should be sent to jail. At this time it seems like in full knowledge of the situation he circumvented the no fly list and put a lot of people in danger. I guess because in his mind he felt that the Italians would simply kill him instead of treating him. Proving that he is a complete waste of human flesh.

[bnmismo]

"Proving that he is a complete waste of human flesh. "

well yea, he's a lawyer.

[00001locdogg]

hahahaha!

[sadswain]

咦？我好像看见汉字了啊！！哈哈...

[LegoFan970]

Actually, they told him that he was not contagious and that they were only prohibiting him to fly because of liability. Only after learning that his disease was drug-resistant did they tell him not to fly. The best treatment center is in the US, and they would not arrange transportation for him to return.

In addition, he didn't infect anyone, nor did anyone show signs of exposure.

[italianman004]

This Whole story is riddled with so many unclear statements and answers. To me I find it ironic that his father-in-law works for CDC and not only that but his son-law is infected. WHATS REALLY GOING ON.??

[00001locdogg]

Andrew Speaker's father works for the CDC (Center for Disease Control). He is studying a tough strain of tuberculosis, and claims theres absolutely no connection with his profession and what is going on with his son, Andrew.

[MyEarbot]

Actually, it's his new Father-In-Law according to MSNBC

"His new father-in-law, Robert C. Cooksey, is a CDC microbiologist whose specialty is TB and other bacteria. Cooksey would not comment on whether he reported his son-in-law to federal health authorities. Nor did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explain how the case came to their attention. However, Cooksey said that neither he nor his CDC laboratory was the source of his son-in-law's TB."

[AdrianaStuijt]

XDR TB is now an epidemic in South Africa and has already crossed the border to neighbouring Lesotho. In South Africa it has a kill-rate of 100% and in Lesotho, the kill-rate among these new patients thus far is already 85% according to WHO's Dr De Cock.

[AdrianaStuijt]

XDR TB is now an epidemic in South Africa and has already crossed the border to neighbouring Lesotho. In South Africa it has a kill-rate of 100% and in Lesotho, the kill-rate among these new patients thus far is already 85% according to WHO's Dr De Cock.