This is truly amazing. TB had been eradicated here in the US but now it is showing up in a high school in a town of just over 125,000 souls in northwest Kansas. How can this possibly be explained?
"OLATHE, Kan. — The state health department says 27 people have tested positive for tuberculosis after one student at Olathe Northwest High School was diagnosed with active TB in early March. Health officials says those infected have no signs of disease so far.
More than 300 students and staff at the high school were tested for TB...
Even though the sick student has not been in school since being diagnosed, Marsh says there still could be more cases of infection. It can take eight to ten weeks for the bacteria to show up in testing, so those who had contact with the student during the spring semester will need to have testing repeated in early May."
I earned my BA at a college in Olathe, Kansas. You don't hear much about Olathe, Kansas.
******* Daniel Greenfield, January 29, 2015, The Imaginary Islamic Radical
"Our problem is not the Islamic radical, but the inherent radicalism of Islam. Islam is a radical religion. It radicalizes those who follow it. Every atrocity we associate with Islamic radicals is already in Islam. The Koran is not the solution to Islamic radicalism, it is the cause."
That being said the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has assured us that:
"The number of individuals with TB infection does not exceed what we would anticipate in this setting said Lougene Marsh, director of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. “Of course, we had hoped we wouldn’t find any additional TB cases, but we knew this was a possibility. That’s why we took such thorough steps to test everyone who might have been in close contact with the first confirmed case of TB disease" http://www.jocogov.org/sites/default/fil...se%20031815.pdf
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Not so hard to figure out. We stopped giving TB vaccinations and then allowed illegals to bring it across the border. Bound to happen.
Personally if I come down with TB (as a I blame our genius congress critters for this fiasco) I will go to D.C. and go into the Capital and breathe and cough on as many of these lawmakers as I possibly can.
WHAT? "Not so hard to figure out. We stopped giving TB vaccinations and then allowed illegals to bring it across the border."
CG, I think you may be on to something.
Remember last summer when the volume of children crossing our southern border became a "crisis" and a number of them were quietly dispersed throughout the US including, if I recall correctly, into Kansas.
Historians are going to have a ball analyzing the causes for our national suicide.
Allahu Akbar" is Arabic for "Nothing to see here"~~Mark Steyn explaining the reaction of Obama, Hollande, et. al., to Muslim terror attacks.