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Why is tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, on the rise in the UK?

Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13% in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK.

After a downturn during the COVID pandemic, wealthy countries like the UK are now seeing a resurgence of TB that experts say is the canary in the coal mine for other health issues related to social deprivation.

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A radiographer in the UK points to an X-ray made for a tuberculosis patient. | Copyright Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo
Euronews · Why is tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, on the rise in the UK?By Gabriela Galvin
#Health#TB#Tuberculosis
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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

Yaaaaa....

The abscess or cavitary lesion in my lung (they kinda use the word interchangeably while they figure it out) may be #tuberculosis or a number of infections!

There could be other causes too.

But I have every single symptom now that I looked up what they are, and it can cause pneumonia!

I should have been hospitalized a month ago, the pneumonia covered up the lesion on the X-ray.

My lung is permanently damaged, one last gift from being #homeless until recently.

#health#medicine
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Axomamma

“You can think of TB outbreaks like a canary in the coalmine of our public health infrastructure,” said David Dowdy, professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

“What causes them to happen is a weakening of our public health infrastructure.”

#PublicHealth #CDC #Tuberculosis #RepublicanDeathCult
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The Guardian · Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrungBy Melody Schreiber
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today In Labor History March 26, 1850: Edward Bellamy was born. Bellamy was an American author and socialist political activist, most well-known for his utopian novel, “Looking Backward,” one of the most commercially successful books published in the 19th century. It particularly appealed to the intellectuals who were alienated by the Gilded Age greed, corruption and violence. His book inspired many to form so-called “nationalist clubs” to implement his ideas of a society free of private property, social classes, war, poverty, crime, lawyers, politicians, prostitution, merchants, soldiers, and taxes. Plus, everyone could retire by the age of 45. He died at the age of 48 from tuberculosis.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #utopia #edwardbellamy #poverty #prostitution #PrivateProperty #socialism #tuberculosis #war #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

Dust jacket of Looking Backward. By Edward Bellamy - Scan from the original work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22822976
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Broadwaybabyto

COVID minimizers have said for years that “if” it was that dangerous we would see increases in other illnesses

We’re at that stage, and no one is talking about it. Deny. Deflect. Obfuscate.

“Other illnesses that weaken the immune system and allow latent TB infections to emerge may also be at play”

newser.com/story/366057/tb-cas

Newser LLC · Tuberculosis Is Making a ComebackBy Jenn Gidman
#covidisairborne#covidisnotover#tuberculosis
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The cure for TB—roughly half a year on antibiotics—has existed since the 1950s, and works for most patients. Yet, in the decades since, more than 100 million people have died of tuberculosis because the drugs are not widely available in many parts of the world. The most proximate cause of contemporary tuberculosis deaths is not M. tuberculosis, but Homo sapiens. Now, as the Trump administration decimates foreign-aid programs, the U.S. is both making survival less likely for people with TB and risking the disease becoming far more treatment-resistant. After decades of improvement, we could return to something more like the world before the cure.

Anyone can get tuberculosis—in fact, a quarter of all humans living now, including an estimated 13 million Americans, have been infected with the bacterium, which spreads through coughs, sneezes, and breaths. Most will only ever have a latent form of the infection, in which infection-fighting white blood cells envelop the bacteria so it cannot wreak havoc on the body. But in 5 to 10 percent of infections, the immune system can’t produce enough white blood cells to surround the invader. M. tuberculosis explodes outward, and active disease begins.

Certain triggers make the disease more likely to go from latent to active, including air pollution and an immune system weakened by malnutrition, stress, or diabetes. The disease spreads especially well along the trails that poverty has blazed for it: in crowded living and working conditions such as slums and poorly ventilated factories. Left untreated, most people who develop active TB will die of the disease."

theatlantic.com/health/archive

The Atlantic · Trump Is Ceding Ground to TuberculosisBy John Green
#USA#Trump#USAID
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