New TB strain in SA

"It's urgent to make the diagnosis when HIV is involved, because if you don't make it, the combination of HIV and TB will kill," Nunn said.
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That is a fact.

And here in the Western Cape where TB has the highest incidence in the world, these people arriving from the Eastern Cape with AIDS are sure to be dead in no time. Lost one member of staff already this way and another has the same symptoms.

I myself am **** scared of getting TB.
Some of my staff have it and one is on treatment at the moment.
Scary stuff TB.

Anyone with AIDS must steer a wide berth of the Cape Flats.
 
I can't help but laugh about this. TB is 100% curable, and it should be treated immediately. I was involved with a mobile TB and other treatment clinic a few years ago in the western cape, and some black dudes (and women) refused treatment because they believed the medicine would hurt them because a white person was administering it. Even though we itterated and reitterated that they can die from TB, they insisted we were wrong, and that their "traditional healers" insisted that they were not sick.
 
@JontyB

its totally cureable *IF* you finish you course of medication. Thats why the bugs are getting stronger ... take 80% of the medication and before the bug is dead, it has learnt what the human medicine does and evolves to a new strain.
 
RichardP said:
@JontyB

its totally cureable *IF* you finish you course of medication. Thats why the bugs are getting stronger ... take 80% of the medication and before the bug is dead, it has learnt what the human medicine does and evolves to a new strain.
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And in the case of the one fellow who works here who drinks too much alcohol, the pills make him feel ill, so he has never finished a course of pills, so I can only assume he still has TB.
 
BTTB said:
I myself am **** scared of getting TB.
Some of my staff have it and one is on treatment at the moment.
Scary stuff TB.
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My domestic is always coughing and having breathing problems. She said the doctor diagnosed her with asthma. I'm not so sure because the last time a government hospital doctor said my gardener had just a stomach bug, then a few days later his appendix almost burst. :eek:

Could just be the very bad polution. :(


Angelo said:
Remember we have tourists in SA as we speak, are they infected with TB too, what about you, has this rampaging epidermic got you too?
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It seems this "rampaging epidemic" has got people close to some of us. A member of my dad's staff also went down with T.B.
 
Maybe there could be a poll.

Do you know of anybody suffering from T.B
 
(thought I heard a story, saw a thing) peeps don't want to be cured; they get a disability grant if sick? Or am I wrong?
 
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