A quick look at “imported TB” – fingers crossed it is not the start of another global pandemic
Imagine if the US had decided to import C19 infected people from around the world in 2020 and transported them all around the States. Now, this might be a complete over-reaction… but on the other hand, is this what is happening with the “Open Borders” policy of the Democratic Party, right now, but with Tuberculosis?
The Epoch Times published the article below a few days ago.
Illegal Immigrant Children With Tuberculosis Released Across US (theepochtimes.com)
“Thousands of illegal immigrant children with tuberculosis were released from U.S. government custody over the course of a year, officials have revealed in a new report.”
Referencing this report:
HHS Report on Illegal Immigrant Children - DocumentCloud
I thought I would do a little background digging.
The WHO has this: Tuberculosis (who.int)
“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/AIDS). In 2020, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. 5.6 million men, 3.3 million women and 1.1 million children. TB is present in all countries and age groups. But TB is curable and preventable.”
Hmm. “leading infectious killer after C19” and worse than HIV/AIDS.
The content of the Epoch Times article, reminded me of a few things – one a movie called Elysium and the other stories from post-Soviet Russia about multi-drug resistant TB.
“Our findings suggest a high prevalence of MDR TB in prisons of Post-Soviet states with percentages as high as 16 times more than the worldwide prevalence estimated by the WHO in 2014.”
Here’s a link to a CDC article that has lots of US facts and figures:
Tuberculosis — United States, 2021 | MMWR (cdc.gov)
“What is already known about this topic?
The number of reported U.S. tuberculosis (TB) cases decreased sharply in 2020, possibly related to multiple factors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is added by this report?
Reported TB incidence (cases per 100,000 persons) increased 9.4%, from 2.2 during 2020 to 2.4 during 2021 but was lower than incidence during 2019 (2.7). Increases occurred among both U.S.-born and non–U.S.-born persons.”
Of note we have this:
“A total of 7,860 TB cases were reported during 2021, 687 more than during 2020 (7,173) and 1,040 fewer than during 2019 (8,900) (Table 1). From 2020 to 2021,”
“During 2021, 71% of TB cases occurred among non–U.S.-born persons, the same proportion as in 2020 and 2019.”
From here:
“8,300: reported TB cases (provisional) in the United States in 2022 (a rate of 2.5 cases per 100,000 persons).”
“Up to 13 million: estimated number of people in the United States living with latent TB infection”
13 million latent infections now. I wonder how that correlates with the 71% of cases amongst non-US persons/illegal immigration.
The US has TB vaccines, but advises inoculations on an “as needed” basis.
More detail here: Tuberculosis (TB) Vaccination: For Healthcare Providers | CDC
The reproductive number for TB is discussed here:
“The reproductive number estimates ranged from 0.24 in the Netherlands (during 1933–2007) to 4.3 in China in 2012. “
Not looking good for a possible new pandemic if the R0 gets to the same levels as those in China – which would not be that dissimilar from the R0 for C19!
Looking further I stumbled across this excellent article:
Tuberculosis Vaccine: In the United States and Worldwide (verywellhealth.com)
“According to a 2022 systematic review and meta-analysis, the BCG vaccine was found to be 18% effective overall in protecting against tuberculosis disease and related complications.”
Better than nothing!
” In the United States, tuberculosis cases are relatively rare. In total, 8,300 TB cases were reported to the CDC’s National Tuberculosis Surveillance System in 2022. Rates of TB disease in the United States decreased consistently from 1993–2019.
They briefly declined sharply (by 19.9%) during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and rose by 9.4% in 2021. Still, the overall number of U.S. TB cases in 2022 was lower than in 2019.”
Okay, so that’s some background.
Now back to the HHS approach of distributing known TB children throughout the US.
It seems clear that this issue has been around for a long time. For as long as Illegal immigration has been around – many decades. The data from HHS excludes “getaways”.
13 million estimated LATENT infections.
So, the issues revolve around - how many cases are being imported, how much does it cost to treat them, how infectious are they, how many infections have been caused by illegal immigration (of the 13 million infected) and of course, why isn’t HHS advocating the same masking, lockdowns, testing etc that it advocated and enforced for C19?
I dount anyone would take in a known infectious TB sufferer in their homes, or even their streets and yet here we have the HHS doing what it can to implement such a policy on instructions from TPTB in the Democratic Party and its adherents to the Maoist/Marxist Cult of Moloch.
There is unlimited demand for free shit by a veritable free shit army from all over the world - free treatment, free education, free housing, free utilities, free welfare from billions of people worldwide – yet only limited taxes fo fund such largesse.
Of course, TB is not the only “imported” condition that might be arriving.
On a side note, here is a link to how China is going to tackle its heavy TB burden.
Estimating the Incidence of Tuberculosis — Shanghai, China, 2025−2050 (chinacdc.cn)
“Screening for latent TB infections should be carried out regularly in high-risk groups and areas using tuberculin skin testing and/or interferon gamma release assays.”
Imagine if China was not run like a police state. All those wonderful Chinese people in that wonderful country would not only be eating the US lunch, but were it a “hands off” republic, they would be eating the US breakfast, dinner and tea as well!
Still, the “whites only” eugenicist supporters of the WEF and UN are doing their best to find the lowest common denominator of poverty for the entire planet – whilst killing off one mother or father and one of two kids. Nice people.
Onwards
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I'm a doctor. I made this argument to my peers immediately when the infamous "2-weeks to flatten the curve" bullshit was forced upon us. I said, "WTF - drug resistant TB has been wiping people out worldwide annually by the million or more, has a 30% mortality rate (drug resistant variety) and spreads like wildfire via respiratory mechanisms so why haven't we locked down the world for that when Covid has an estimated 6% mortality rate (obviously that was wrong too - turns out it was around 1%) which is FAR less than drug resistant TB?" No one would listen to me...they still don't. Some of them have died though...pesky vaccine.
Well, we did import infected with COVID people too....no covid tests, no vaccination requirement for illegals...Along with TB.
Why normies aren't getting a clue and getting up in arms about this just floors me. They would yell at you in the grocery store if your mask slipped, but still had no clue that no one with Covid was ever turned away