This week, I brought up a new awareness in Germany about Tuberculosis. This AM....new story appeared from the Boppard region (about 50 miles west of where I live)...in the Pfalz region....where a case of TB popped up.
School? Yeah.
Health authorities? Well....they've isolated the person and gone to a contact list of about 30 people, who will have to have a blood test done shortly after Easter.
To be honest about TB....if you were around Germany around 100 years ago...it was still a big deal, with it being the lead cause of death for Germans. Since WW II? I'd say that most Germans are unfamiliar with the disease, and are shocked how it made a comeback in the country.
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And with the large influx of illegal aliens into the U.S. we are seeing TB and many other diseases that had disappeared into the U.S.
I would think that the same would be true for Germany with their influx of immigrants.
You would think in both cases...it'd make sense to test for TB upon entry and quarantine as necessary.
That's what Ellis Is. and other entry points were set up for originally. We seem to have forgotten or ignore many of the lessons learned.
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