Nearly 50 Indiana students test positive for tuberculosis

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SELLERSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Nearly 50 southern Indiana students exposed to a classmate with a confirmed case of tuberculosis have tested positive for the disease in preliminary tests.

Clark County Health Department administrator Mike Meyer said Friday the 48 positive skin tests for the bacterial disease don’t mean those students have diagnosed TB cases.  

He says the Rock Creek Community Academy students will undergo chest X-rays and possibly other tests to determine if they have the illness.

Dr. Paul Schulz with Norton Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, tells WAVE-TV (http://bit.ly/1KTtrwA ) the students could have latent tuberculosis, where the person isn’t ill or contagious but could eventually develop TB.

Tuberculosis bacteria typically attack the lungs, but can infect other organs. TB can be deadly if left untreated. The bacteria are typically transmitted through coughs and sneezes.

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2 thoughts on “Nearly 50 Indiana students test positive for tuberculosis

  1. In 1999 40 percent of the students at Miami Beach Middle School tested positive for exposure to TB. Haitians were getting beaten up by African Americans at the schools they lived close to. In Miami-Dade county any “minority” can use the bus system and go to any school in the county. (Whites are technically a minority in the county, but the usual double standard denies them this opportunity.)

    So the Haitians took the bus to South Beach and brought TB with them. Besides the TB, the mean I.Q. in Haiti is 73. In the US, 75 or lower is clinically and legally mentally retarded. This means that more than half the population of Haiti is legally mentally retarded. How will that effect performance and education in schools they attend?

  2. Yeah we knew the illegal immigration is the source of this. Have had our vocal complaints been poo poo’ed with “dreamer” talk, and we need farm labor/workers and with classified DHS dumps.

    Should you ask me today to find who is responsible for this TB outbreak, I would have to say the ORDERS IMMIGRATION WERE BEING RUN UNDER.
    And then I Would have ERIC HOLDER in PLACE number one, for the target for action by the people against him for his broken oath allowing wide open borders (when that dude (James O Keefe can walk over in a Bin Laden Suit!) and felonies of spreading infectious diseases by proxy using DHS for the Classified dumps. IT simply has to start there as he was responsible and swore the oath. It starts at securing the border.

    I can’t GET MAD at the guy walking around with the disease when MY GUY at the border didn’t CARE, but I CAN make sure the guy WITH the disease gets one way ticket back to their country, also ALERTING that country, so he don’t spread MORE disease.. and I can give MY GUY the dishonorable boot after gathering the facts. Also IF I am surgeon general I make a announcement, IF you need to keep a TB guy subdued you do X, Y , Z to prep, truth is I don’t know how to handle a TB guy other than get the hell out (isolation), since he/she is spreading DISEASE. Do you?! Technically it’s BIOLOGICAL WARFARE …

    Off topic thoughts
    I am wondering why we do TRADE with Mexico at all? Certainly there are no sick American “dreamers” illegally crossing into Mexico for the opportunity!

    (for those that care) This post by me is ANOTHER EXAMPLE why those talking about dreamers are so wrong. But after a heart attack, I am not allowed personally to get so mad anymore and engage them. Funny that. I guess it leaves my thoughts scrambled sometimes. ON the bright side, I am MUCH healthier than BEFORE my heart attack now.

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