sammy

If I were you Sammy I’d lay off the acid. You are dribbling incoherent rubbish

Deadly TB killing prisoners

Society should treat prisoners humanly, it is their duty to keep these people that are incarcerated in a good healthy enviroment, avoiding over-crowding and respecting the dignity of a person, yes, a prisoner is a person, and should be treated as such, but it seems in many prisons throughout this planet prisoners are treated worse than animals, and in many cases their human rights are denied to them.

In some instances prisoners have been abused and kept in cages like wild animals, and denied their rights to being accused of their supposed crime that they might have committed, kept in isolation, tortured, and some so called progressive countries, who are being taken over by feeble minded leaders have legally approved the use of torture.

It is time that the international community investigate these abuses and those leaders that approve these torture meathods be brought to have these torture meathods used upon them to start with, like the old saying says; “Do on to others as you have others do upon you”.

Sammy

Do unto them what they would do to us. My heart bleeds.

Sammy
03-24-08, 10:03 AM, the world you think you live in, the ideals you are trying to portray belong unfortunately to a place called Utopia, a bit like Alice in Wonderland, a land of fairy princes and princesses, where all smells like roses and everyone loves everyone else, get real, this world is rotten with decay, and stinks to high heaven, and believe you me, it is going to get a helluvalot worse and not better, and here a heartless remark, (looking at this your way) I hope that that lot in those prisons die off quickly before those deadly strains of tuberculosis escape into the wide world, the result of that would be a thousand times worse than all the deadly infecteous diseases we now have put together, just think about that!

n some instances prisoners have been abused and kept in cages like wild animals, and denied their rights to being accused of their supposed crime that they might have committed, kept in isolation, tortured, and some so called progressive countries, who are being taken over by feeble minded leaders have legally approved the use of torture.

Why don’t you come out, and name that country Sammy? We all know you refer to that place in Cuba, where the US of A keeps most of those prisoners, must be a few more places like that we never hear of, and than our American “brothers” boast of being the defenders of human rights, yeah, for as long it suits them!

Working to build a better world to live in, by considering the unfortunate, and the

si Kesasar
03-24-08, 05:29 PM
You see we have different views on things, you are in one way expressing the destruction of these prisoners that are infected with TB to die quickly so that their infection will save the rest of humanity from being infected.

This gives me the impression that you are living in the real destructive world that exists at the present, where each thinks about himself, and has no consideration for the less fortunate.

At the present we have more “HAVE” and way less “HAVE NOT”, the “HAVE” are armed and are destroying the “HAVE NOT”, whom at the present are fair game to the “HAVE” to destroy so that the “HAVE” can rob their resources so that they can maintain their high standard of evil living.

On the other hand my dream thinking is to wish for a better society to evolve where we all become more humane and consider the less fortunate that are part of the human race in which we make part of, and if we can, we should work for their improvement, because they are humans, and we give value to human live, because life is a precious gift, that was given to us by a creator (for those that believe in the creation) and for those that do not, it was given to us by mother nature, and we cannot steal from our creator, nor from mother nature, but we are here to respect which either we believe in.

So no man nor any government has the right to take a human life.

At the present, when a person tries to speak the true facts, and respecting the rights of others, as well as asking for better treatment for those who have had hardships in life, he or she is automatically placed as a dreamer, but I would wish that there would be more dreamers in this planet of ours who would out-balance the hypocrits, the bullies, the arrogant, the evil doers, the heartless, and the speculators, who categorize people in accordance to the wealth that they have obtained through cheating, and taking advantage of the naive, and gullible and then being considered to be outstanding citizens in some worthless societies that have no real value in the dreams of the dreamers that live in the world of fantasy.

Sammy

The truth hurts, because it is a powerful arm

ruttiger
03-24-08, 08:28 PMù

The truth is very dangerous to those that are used to the evils of modern day life, and these people consider those that evidence the truth to them to be very dangerous because it hits them right below the belt.

Sammy

DR-TB spreading...
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U.N. Chief Urges Action On Tuberculosis
March 24, 2008 : Secretary-General Says Epidemic That Kills 4,000 A Day Is Spreading

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged stepped-up international action on World TB Day to stop the global tuberculosis epidemic that is killing 4,000 people every day. In a message on Monday to mark the day, Ban said “the man-made multi-drug resistant strain and its even more lethal form, extensively drug-resistant TB, are both spreading."

“That is why the theme of this year’s day is `I Am Stopping TB'," he said. “This is a fight that can be won only with the collective commitment of millions of individuals — donors and researchers, doctors and health care workers, patients and family members." In a report last week, the World Health Organization said the fight to control TB has slowed to a crawl, threatening efforts to control the disease.

The worldwide rate of TB infection has been declining since it peaked several years ago, but the rate of new cases fell by less than 1 percent between 2005 and 2006, which WHO called “very modest." Ideally, health officials want to see yearly decreases of 5-7 percent. Compounding the problem is that drug-resistant TB is growing faster than ever, according to last month’s WHO report.

“Thanks to a broad coalition of partners working to stop TB, the proportion of people who become ill with the disease is slowly falling," Ban said. “But this progress is not keeping pace with population growth, so more and more people are becoming infected with tuberculosis." “World TB Day is an occasion to urge action to stop tuberculosis, a disease which still kills an appalling 4,000 people every day," he said.

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Genetic link to TB...
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Gene mutation linked to most severe TB
Fri., March. 28, 2008 - Finding shows need for targeted treatments for potentially fatal disease

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People who carry a mutant gene can develop potentially fatal meningitis if they get infected with the drug resistant Beijing strain of tuberculosis, a study in Vietnam has found. Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of the disease in which the infection spreads to membranes enveloping the brain and the spinal cord. One in three people who develop TB meningitis dies, even if he or she gets hospital treatment.

The study published in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, found people most likely to develop TB meningitis were those who carried a variant of the TLR2 gene and who get infected with the Beijing TB strain, prevalent in Asia and the former Soviet states. Previous studies have linked TLR2 to the immune system and it seems to be important for recognizing and initiating a defensive response to the TB bacteria.

The researchers took bacteria samples from 187 patients who suffered tuberculous meningitis and 236 other patients dwho suffered the more common pulmonary tuberculosis. Most of the patients then had their genes analyzed to see if they carried the TLR2 variant. “Together, these results suggest that the association of the (variant gene) with tuberculous meningitis is strongest among those infected with the Beijing lineage,” the scientists wrote.

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Granny says, “Watch out fer dem cheesy Mexicans...
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Tainted cheese fuels TB rise in California
Wed., June. 4, 2008 - Unpasteurized dairy products linked to reemergence of ancient disease

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A rare form of tuberculosis caused by illegal, unpasteurized dairy products, including the popular queso fresco cheese, is rising among Hispanic immigrants in Southern California and raising fears about a resurgence of a strain all but eradicated in the U.S. Cases of the Mycobacterium bovis strain of TB have increased in San Diego county, particularly among children who drink or eat dairy foods made from the milk of infected cattle, a study in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases shows.

But the germ can infect anyone who eats contaminated fresh cheeses sold by street vendors, smuggled across the Mexican border or produced by families who try to make a living selling so-called “bathtub cheese” made in home tubs and backyard troughs. Scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine are warning that improved screening, treatment and public education are necessary to prevent the spread of the disease that now accounts for about 10 percent of all new cases of TB in that border region — and, perhaps, others.

“M. bovis TB is a disease of antiquity,” said Timothy Rodwell, a researcher who led the study published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It is important that it not be allowed to re-emerge as a cause of TB in this country.” Unlike typical TB, caused by the M. tuberculosis strain, the bovine variety isn’t easily spread through human-to-human contact. It settles less often in the lungs, making it less likely to be transmitted through breathing and coughing, Rodwell said.

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Mebbe dem prizners would take their TB medicine for some free cell phone minutes?...
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Potential new weapon against TB: free cell minutes
13 June `08 — Researchers at MIT believe they’ve discovered a new weapon in the battle against tuberculosis: Free cellphone minutes.

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For years, doctors have struggled to get some TB patients to take all their medication, which generally involves a six-month regimen of multiple drugs. Now a student-led group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a way to use cellphones to let patients test themselves. And if the tests show patients are following doctor’s orders, they get rewarded with free minutes.

“We’re piggybacking on one of the bigger rollouts of infrastucture out there, which is wireless technology and telecom technology," said Jose Gomez-Marquez, one of the project’s leaders. The system works like this: Patients test their urine using a strip that reveals a numeric code if it detects TB medicine. They then text message the code to their health care provider and get credit toward incentives such as free minutes.

The in-home tests also eliminate the need for health care workers to make several patient-monitoring visits a week, a routine that is often impractical in remote places, Gomez-Marquez said. Mobile phones are good tools for the project because they are common in the developing world, where it’s often cheaper to erect cell towers than miles of poles and wires, Gomez-Marquez said.

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New TB test looks promising...
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Officials Praise New Test for Drug-Resistant TB
July 1, 2008 - A new test that can detect multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis in two days instead of the standard two to three months promises to help significantly improve treatment and prevent the spread of the airborne infection, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

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Multiple-drug-resistant TB, or MDR-TB, is a growing public health problem in the world. Five percent of new TB cases are resistant to first-line drugs. That is 450,000 of the nine million new TB cases that are detected each year, the W.H.O. says. In the United States, the prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis among foreign-born TB patients has been about 1.5 percent, roughly three times the percentage among American-born patients with TB.

“The new test is revolutionary,” said Dr. Mario C. Raviglione, W.H.O.’s director of tuberculosis control, because “it changes completely the way we will be dealing with MDR-TB.” The difficulty in detecting cases rapidly and accurately is a major obstacle in tuberculosis control. In most developing countries, cases cannot be detected easily or at all, leading to lags in starting proper treatment that can lead to a patient’s death and the further spread of resistant strains.

The new test was described for reporters by telephone on Monday by officials from the W.H.O. and three other international health groups, the Stop TB Partnership, Unitaid and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, or FIND. The TB test, called a line probe assay, costs less than $8 and detects mutations in bacterial DNA linked to drug resistance. It is based on the same laboratory methods that scientists have used to determine parentage and detect certain genetic diseases, said Dr. Richard O’Brien, an official of FIND.

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