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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: TB: the Return of an Ancient Scourge |
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(I have to give credit to another thread for getting the ball rolling.)
TB: the Return of an Ancient Scourge
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| "We guess the reason TB incidence among young people is so high because they are being exposed to TB germs when their immune system has been weakened by excessive stress and workload, irregular life patterns, diet and lack of exercise.� |
How about the fact that people here COUGH WITHOUT COVERING THEIR MOUTHS! Like this ~ !
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Due to improvement in nutrition and hygiene, the number of patients with TB decreased from 1.24 million in 1965 to 169,000 in 2005, but the country still has the highest number among OECD nations. In 2005, some 35,269 people newly contracted the disease and some 3,000 died of it. The incidence rate was 90 cases per population of 100,000, which was more than twice as high as the 42 in second-ranked Portugal. Korea also ranked first in terms of morality rate, with the number more than double those of the second-ranked nations --Mexico, Portugal, and Turkey -- at 10 cases per a population of 100,000. This shows that Korea has a long way to go in fighting TB.
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Amongst all OECD countries, they're Number One in mortality rates, more than double second-ranked Portugal? How about suggesting that people COVER THEIR MOUTHS WHEN THEY COUGH?!
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| What is worse, there is concern about a possible spread of a super-TB strain. According to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Series released in March 2006 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 11 percent of Korean TB patients suffer from multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, and 15 percent of them are super-TB patients, ranking second in terms of the number of super-TB patients after Latvia (19 percent). The super-TB strain, also called extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strain, has been found in 17 nations around the world so far, and has been spreading rapidly to more countries. |
So, this nation is becoming a production factory of drug-resistant bacteria? Isn't that what's bound to happen when people TAKE MEDICINE EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY'RE THE LEAST BIT SICK?!
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:23 am Post subject: Re: TB: the Return of an Ancient Scourge |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| How about the fact that people here COUGH WITHOUT COVERING THEIR MOUTHS! |
So "civilized" eh? Monkey see, monkey do.
I try & "teach" all my kiddies coughing in other peoples' face = WELL-BEING DOWN.
Covering & turning away = WELL-BEING UP.
Repeat this a couple times & they seem toget the "well-being" idea. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: |
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Transmission
TB is spread by aerosol droplets expelled by people with the active disease of the lungs when they cough, sneeze, speak, or spit. These infectious droplets are 0.5 to 5 �m in diameter and about 40,000 can be produced by a single sneeze.[14] People with prolonged, frequent, or intense contact are at highest risk of becoming infected, with an estimated 22% infection rate. |
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Prevention
TB prevention and control takes two parallel approaches. In the first, people with TB and their contacts are identified and then treated. Identification of infections often involves testing high-risk groups for TB. In the second approach, children are vaccinated to protect them from TB. Unfortunately, no vaccine is available that provides reliable protection for adults. However, in tropical areas where the incidence of atypical mycobacteria is high, exposure to nontuberculous mycobacteria gives some protection against TB.[27] |
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History
Tuberculosis, or 'consumption' as it was commonly known, caused the most widespread public concern in the 19th and early 20th centuries as an endemic disease of the urban poor. In 1815, one in four deaths in England was of consumption; by 1918 one in six deaths in France were still caused by TB. After the establishment in the 1880s that the disease was contagious, TB was made a notifiable disease in Britain; there were campaigns to stop spitting in public places, and the infected poor were "encouraged" to enter sanatoria that resembled prisons; the sanatoria for the middle and upper classes offered excellent care and constant medical attention.[55] Whatever the purported benefits of the fresh air and labor in the sanatoria, even under the best conditions, 50% of those who entered were dead within five years (1916).[55]
Public health campaigns tried to halt the spread of TB.The promotion of Christmas Seals began in Denmark during 1904 as a way to raise money for tuberculosis programs. It expanded to the United States and Canada in 1907-08 to help the National Tuberculosis Association (later called the American Lung Association).
In the United States, concern about the spread of tuberculosis played a role in the movement to prohibit public spitting except into spittoons.
In Europe, deaths from TB fell from 500 out of 100,000 in 1850 to 50 out of 100,000 by 1950. Improvements in public health were reducing tuberculosis even before the arrival of antibiotics, although the disease remained a significant threat to public health, such that when the Medical Research Council was formed in Britain in 1913 its initial focus was tuberculosis research |
Ok, so it seems that America combated TB with a string of anti-spitting laws and such - but does anyone have ay medical proof that it actually helps reduce the spread?
I ask because I want to present this and am looking for more evidence. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| I teach my kids to cover their mouths when they cough. Most of them get it right away, but a few just don't. I resort to more explicit methods, like shying away when they cough or making a face. They get it eventually. |
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Buff
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| "Korea also ranked first in terms of morality rate" Ha! |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Nah, they just left a word out. It should have been, Morality Mortality.
Sounds like a cool punk band or something.
Just wanted to say that.... |
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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Very many Korean university students who come to study in the states end up having to take a medication regimen for TB.
Another thought: Wonder how long before they find a way to blame TB on the foreigners.
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| When a character in a drama needs to be offed and they're too young to have a heart attack or cancer but too smart to get hit by a car, give 'em TB. |
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