“Brown slime” is probably not something you want in your eyes. It’s not even a very good band name!
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Butbutbut, there is no systemic racisim!! Greg Abbot told me so!!
Gaaahhh!!!
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… maybe not technically an epidemic
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The WHO and UNICEF said the outbreak came after measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine vaccination coverage fell from 74% to 34% between 2017 and 2018 after two infants died following immunization with improperly prepared vaccines, which led to vaccine hesitancy.
34% is so far below the required level for community protection as to effectively zero.
And it is vital to understand that the fatalities had nothing to do with the MMR component.
In early 2019, two nurses were sentenced to five years in jail for negligently preparing the vaccines by using a muscle relaxant instead of water to reconstitute them.
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How the hell did I not hear about this one? (OK, 2021, there were some other things going on that kind of distracted me, but still…)
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Not being objective at all, but where is the one for kids? (No, really, this is great news. Kids will be next, I have faith.)
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A “shortage of non-human primates”, you say? I may have a modest proposal to address that.
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Another treatment-resistant condition
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Hang on… 32,441 excess deaths in 
from May to December 2022, 4,190 in the last two weeks of available data. This is not including COVID. What fresh, Dickensian hell is this?
This is over all age groups. Cardiovascular disease (Ischaemic heart disease), strokes, heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver are well represented but explanations are, it seems, just not there.
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Tories, that’s the cause of death.
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Thanks Antivaxxers.
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Well, this is good news, but she has been out there coughing on people for months. How many cases will we see from that? Sigh…
In January, the department seemed to hit a breaking point after the woman was involved in a car accident as a passenger—clearly indicating that she was not isolating. She went to an emergency department the next day, complaining of chest pain, and X-rays revealed her tuberculosis infection was progressing. She did not tell the medical staff at the hospital of her infection, and they initially thought she had cancer based on the state of her lungs.
This indicates active, bronchopulmonary TB, the sort that is infectious and contagious. She was a walking TB factory and put who knows how many people in danger because she refused to isolate or treat her infection. Gaaahhhh!!!
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Was Doc Holliday also contagious like this?
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yup. Prior to antibiotic treatment, this was a frequent end stage to this disease. We don’t think about it much here anymore, but historically, it was a frequent killer. In the developing world it still is.
Key facts
- A total of 1.6 million people died from TB in 2021 (including 187 000 people with HIV). Worldwide, TB is the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (above HIV and AIDS).
- In 2021, an estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. Six million men, 3.4 million women and 1.2 million children. TB is present in all countries and age groups. But TB is curable and preventable.
- Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains a public health crisis and a health security threat. Only about 1 in 3 people with drug resistant TB accessed treatment in 2021.
- An estimated 74 million lives were saved through TB diagnosis and treatment between 2000 and 2021.
- US$ 13 billion is needed annually for TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care to achieve the global target agreed at the 2018 UN high level-meeting on TB.
- Ending the TB epidemic by 2030 is among the health targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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