5mo ago

Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung

www.theguardian.com

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"Our best homeopaths and faith healers have been dispatched to smooth the chakras in Kansas."
- Most of the anti-vax people don't believe in that.
  Now, when it comes to horse dewormer and Jesus... Sign them up!
  
  Good thing then that both horse dewormer and Jesus have been proven to achieve the same efficiency as smoothing the chakras.when fighting TB!
  
  Most of the anti-vax people don't believe in that.
  Yeah, I don't care, it's just different flavors of anti-science bullshit. At a fundamental level there is no difference.
- Chiropractors if Missouri.
Before I see all comments laughing at a red state, I just want to point out that this is happening primarily in KS’s most blue counties.
Sharice Davids represents this district in the US House of Representatives She replaced Republican Kevin Yoder in 2018.
This isn’t just hurting those “dumb fuck red voters”. This is happening in blue Kansas City counties.
- Tuberculosis vaccines are not given to the general population and they are not part of childhood vaccine regime.
  They are given to vulnerable people when there is an outbreak.
  That said this may be a strain that is drug resistant, which would explain the severity of the outbreak.
  
  Thank you. I recently listened to the newest episode of Sawbones and Dr. Sydney mentions the tuberculosis outbreak and this specifically.
  
  The BCG vaccine is still part of many national vaccination plans in Europe to this day.
  This is not the case in the US, at least I believe that since levels were lower they never started it.

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