tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post7777411643906526082..comments2023-12-10T10:06:41.979+00:00Comments on mutations of mortality: The white plague in LondonTerry Hamblinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06346629921055055879noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-68015068108613766672011-01-10T23:10:18.509+00:002011-01-10T23:10:18.509+00:00Regarding TB, when I arrived in the UK from South ...Regarding TB, when I arrived in the UK from South Africa on an ancestral visa, I was informed by a nurse at Heathrow I would need to go to have an X-Ray for TB control. Neither my wife nor I were ever contacted, and when we contacted the NHS, they knew nothing about it! Hopefully things have improved by now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-35052557201773603282011-01-02T20:07:31.546+00:002011-01-02T20:07:31.546+00:00Obama was officially born in Hawai. Source:
http:/...Obama was officially born in Hawai. Source:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Early_life_and_careerUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10256468223499864959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-82723133534459655702011-01-02T19:52:45.805+00:002011-01-02T19:52:45.805+00:00No evidence for that.No evidence for that.Terry Hamblinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06346629921055055879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-59480345814929630632011-01-02T19:51:30.447+00:002011-01-02T19:51:30.447+00:00Would splenectomized individuals with lymphoma be ...Would splenectomized individuals with lymphoma be more susceptible to TB than those with a healthy spleen?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-33748265586669521482010-12-31T21:24:01.306+00:002010-12-31T21:24:01.306+00:00Ah, the joys of immigration! Western countries fe...Ah, the joys of immigration! Western countries feel guilty for their success, pushed by liberals, so the tendency is to let in the worst of the worst.<br /><br />Tuberculosis is the least of the worries in the West. Like the US, soon the UK will be led by immigrants. (Obama born in Kenya, contrary to what they'd like you to believe.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-50636755372105114642010-12-31T18:08:30.661+00:002010-12-31T18:08:30.661+00:00Happy New Year and Good Health are our wishes for ...Happy New Year and Good Health are our wishes for you Prof.<br />Jorge/AnaJorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11589387374456072979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-46131051495663254172010-12-31T16:40:13.859+00:002010-12-31T16:40:13.859+00:00I recently read a book about the control of commun...I recently read a book about the control of communicable disease in Philadelphia, PA in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is very impressive what the public health community accomplished through plain old fashioned public health measures such as proper sewage management, clean water, identification of carriers of communicable diseases, and quarantine. <br /><br />While the advent of drug therapy has saved many lives, I believe it has also left us with fewer tools to manage communicable diseases. It would be impossible today in the United States to quarantine individuals who refused to cooperate with health authorities. We have come so far down the road of personal liberty that all of the cards are stacked against the public health authorities in their efforts to control diseases like TB. vAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com