Sign up with GoogleI recently saw on the news that the government was warned of XDR TB in 95 - but refused to go to any meetings at that time. I have also heard reports that this TB has been discovered in Europe (an export from Africa?) I can believe the whole of africa being quarantined - so perhaps anybody should leave now?
Further - the actions of this government and this Health Department are exactly the actions detrimental to this country - how is anybody supposed to run/work a country when the government works to nullify any good?
Extreme TB outbreak just 'tip of the iceberg' September 10 2006
Experts flew in for an emergency international conference in Johannesburg this week. They came from World Health Organisation offices in Europe, the Centres for Disease Control in the US and all of the Southern African Development Community countries, except Zimbabwe.
However, there was not a single representative of South Africa's National Department of Health present, reportedly under orders from Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala Msimang. Sources in her department claim she is furious that news of the extent of South Africa's XDR TB problem has leaked.
Officials from her department have also phoned doctors at the 28 hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal which have or have had XDR TB-infected patients, and warned them not to speak to the media or to allow them onto their premises or to take photographs - or risk losing their jobs.
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He said that in 1995 when the KZN strain of XDR TB was discovered it had been resistant to three drugs: isoniazide, rifmapicin and streptomycin. Then "the genotype began progressing from a single print into a genotype family" and it now rejects all drugs available in South Africa.
Further - the actions of this government and this Health Department are exactly the actions detrimental to this country - how is anybody supposed to run/work a country when the government works to nullify any good?
Extreme TB outbreak just 'tip of the iceberg' September 10 2006
Experts flew in for an emergency international conference in Johannesburg this week. They came from World Health Organisation offices in Europe, the Centres for Disease Control in the US and all of the Southern African Development Community countries, except Zimbabwe.
However, there was not a single representative of South Africa's National Department of Health present, reportedly under orders from Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala Msimang. Sources in her department claim she is furious that news of the extent of South Africa's XDR TB problem has leaked.
Officials from her department have also phoned doctors at the 28 hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal which have or have had XDR TB-infected patients, and warned them not to speak to the media or to allow them onto their premises or to take photographs - or risk losing their jobs.
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He said that in 1995 when the KZN strain of XDR TB was discovered it had been resistant to three drugs: isoniazide, rifmapicin and streptomycin. Then "the genotype began progressing from a single print into a genotype family" and it now rejects all drugs available in South Africa.
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