Wow I didn't know tuberculosis was a sexually transmitted disease, I thought it was like pneumonia.
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Wow I didn't know tuberculosis was a sexually transmitted disease, I thought it was like pneumonia.
Here is a google.com URL "sampling" of links which all mention STD and TB in "the same breath". And the first link confirms that TB of today was the consumption of years ago.
Think of how many novels are related to TB (well at least, Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann)
ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020417.html
labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/tuberculosis.html
In the U.S., there are now about 10 to 15 million people with latent TB infection. Active tuberculosis was thought to be all but eradicated until a resurgence in new cases in the early 1990?s. The majority of these new cases were among those living in overcrowded or confined populations such as correctional facilities, nursing homes, and schools. The most vulnerable were those who were medically underserved or had diseases and conditions that weakened their immune systems, such as: the homeless, alcoholics, intravenous drug users, those with HIV or AIDS, and those with chronic kidney or liver diseases. Often these new cases were multi-drug resistant (MDR), making them more difficult to treat. While the numbers of new cases of active TB have again declined in the U.S. due to constant vigilance by the medical community, tuberculosis remains a significant national and global public health concern.
dhs.state.or.us/publichealth/hst/about.cfm
The HIV/Sexually Transmitted Disease/Tuberculosis (HST) Program operates as a part of the Office of Disease Prevention and Epidemiology in the Oregon Department of Human Services. There are five sections within HST: Data and Analysis, HIV Client Services, HIV Community Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), and Tuberculosis (TB).
msf.org/content/page.cfm?articleid=F4438309-F153-4D13-8A8E3D1D0BEE4C6B
MSF also set up an STD information center in the town of Osh targeting the general population and groups at risk; and developed a program to treat and refer previously excluded sex workers and their children. Two local NGOs were enabled to take these over when MSF withdrew from Kyrgyzstan in December 2001. Public health has suffered in Kazakhstan since it gained independence in 1991. Tuberculosis (TB) was declared a national disaster in 1998. Many cases are resistant to conventional treatment.
doh.state.fl.us/chdCitrus/hiv-aids-tb.htm
Tuberculosis is not an std, it is airborne, mostly in poor areas, even in the Americas and third world countries. Its terms are consumption (it takes over the lungs), white plague, Hippocrates called it phthisis. There were signs of tb in Egyptian mummies. I believe it's a threat now since the tsunami. In 1926, it was one step worse than cancer. They used to collapse lungs to let them rest, pneumothorax procedure. The people diagnosed were sent to sanitariums, to rest (used to be only means with which to get better). I believe people were treated like lepers (sp?) no one wanted to get it. Streptomycin was the antibiotic.
I may be starting a myth, but I think I can recall a speaker once saying that because of the social treatment of people with tb, embrodery began showing up on the edge of handkerchiefs. People with tb tend to cough up blood and so would use needlework to camoflauge the stains that way less people would know.Quote:
Originally Posted by lhaeber
I think I heard that for somewhere.
Yes, Shea, kind of similar to syphillus (again, I don't know the spelling) when high collars and long, frilly sleeves would be worn (wigs as well) would be worn to hide the sores, the scars, etc.
btw
i don't think that Sitaram was implying that TB's an STD, rather that it comes under that umbrella in one of Oregon's health and human services programs.
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Originally Posted by Sitaram
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Originally Posted by lhaeber
Yes.. a 14 yo kid.
Are you reffering that to alcohol? If yes, then Poe didn't just take a swallow, He did had a serious alcohol problem wich lead his name not included to Allan's will when he died.Quote:
Posted by Sitaram: As Aristotle said in the Physics, "One swallow does not make a Spring."