Paid for by the United States tax payer. But, Chertoff, and Condi are doing a great job.

When I went to Argentina for two years (thus the nick), I was forced to take a TB test – X-ray, mind you, not the pin-prick test – for my visa. I was told that this was for “reciprocity” reasons – we did it to them, so they did it to us.

After serving as a missionary in the decaying slums of Buenos Aires for two years, coming into contact with many people that had TB, and picking up many nagging cardiovascular symptoms, the doctors here were almost sure I had it and rushed me through to X-Ray to make sure I didn’t. Luckily, I came up clean, although whatever I picked up while I was down there still nags me to this day.

There’s a reason for the double standard – lots of them have TB. Very, very few Americans actually contract it here. Sorry, Latin America, but here’s the truth – you have a lot more health problems than we will ever have because your socialized medicine has failed entirely and you live in a state of poverty of your own creation.

Releasing a kid like this is idiocy so long as he may have the disease. I speak from experience – I’ve seen what it does to people up close, and it’s not pretty. Releasing someone who has a contagious disease of this severity to the general public is lunacy.

Had I been found to have TB when I got home (I had always just assumed my constant cold was just another one of the little ailments I’d picked up along the way and did not realize the gravity of the situation until I spoke with my doctor shortly after return), I would immediately have been subject to lengthy tests, antibiotic treatments, and placed under close supervision – and I’m a citizen! Letting loose an illegal, a kid who likely moves a few times a year and lives in close contact with far more people than I did is idiocy. Ship him back – let him enjoy the miracle of socialized medicine we all hear so much about from the left.

As a retired Navy HM; I wasn’t to concerned about the biological agents that we have immunizations for (e.g. typhoid, tetanus, yellow fever, anthax and others)-but the biologicals that had been considered eradicated by the WHO and which people are no longer being immunized for such as Small Pox, and Polio.

As far as TB is concerned, the only way a person is going to know that they have been exposed (prior to showing the later symptons) is to take the PPD skin test. If the test comes back with a 10mm or larger enduration, then depending upon one’s age treatment is begun.
The point is that a person generally doesn’t know who exposed them during the interval between PPD tests. The most common exception is person living or working with TB patients or family member.

Just my 2 cents worth…

I have been started on and run courses of INH. It is not pleasant, but necessary after exposure and before the results are back in.

IF you would like more facts on TB, please check the following link:
TB Numbers Worldwide

We are fortunate to live in an area with access to medications and care for these diseases, which makes their prevalence very low. Prevalence is also low in most Central and South America countries. Higher than the US, but low on average.

Public safety is not on the minds of our politicians, unless it makes them and their constituents money. There is no money in TB treatment, but there is money in the slavery of illegal immigrants and in cheap labor.

Remember that in the next election cycle

TB is spread through the air from one person to another. The bacteria are put into the air when a person with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs or sneezes. Laughing, singing, or playing brass or woodwind instruments can also spread the germs in an enclosed space. People nearby may breathe in these bacteria and become infected.

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- Alexander Fraser Tyler,’The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic’.

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Democrats don’t have the spine to do anything except raise taxes. They can’t make the tough decisions about national security and from what I have seen, they don’t think there is a problem with US security or illegal immigration. Tell me…why would anyone vote for a Democrat?

“If we can’t counter TB, how can we counter terrorism?”

Who said the demoncrats want to.
I don’t think that is part of their plan.