Re: Playing Defense

Mike Murray wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:26:55 -0800, "J.D. Walker"
<j.d.walker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TB_poster.jpg

Too little, too late.

In many hospitals, the air conditioning in the emergency room is not
segregated from the air conditioning in the rest of the building.
Street people with TB often take only enough meds to alleviate
symptoms; in other words, they do their best to create drug resistant
strains. Then, when they come back to the ER, it spreads all through
the hospital. In some NYC hospitals, almost all the staff show
antibodies to TB.

Nice point. In addition, with the lousy health care system in the US, many people will not even go to the ER or the doctor when they are sick.

There are areas of the world where TB is a much more serious problem than others. Also, TB is known to have a synergistic effect with HIV each increasing the deadliness of the other. Here is a fact *** about TB from the WHO.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/index.html

On the topic of shaking hands, I just learned that, though rare, syphillis can be spread by handshake. If you contract it this way, try explaining that to the wife... If you see someone with open sores on their hands, syphillis chancres are one possibility. It is also possible to pick it up from dirty towels... Other diseases passed along this way include flesh eating bacteria, athlete's foot, impetigo, and warts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(medicine)#Transmission_by_Direct_Contact
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Cordially,
Rev. J.D. Walker, MsD, U.C.
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