Topic: what will you be doing tonight

[Geemonster]

I thought TB went out with Smallpox.

I thought it was restricted to countries with poor hygeine 

[smokester]

I thought TB went out with Smallpox.

I lost my best friend to TB about 10 years ago and a couple of years after that it took his sister too.

Tragic indeed and it was a mutated strain they had that was untreatable.

[Geemonster]

I lost my best friend to TB about 10 years ago and a couple of years after that it took his sister too.

Tragic indeed and it was a mutated strain they had that was untreatable.

Wow!!  Disturbing

[Skadi]

That is sad

I have to have a yearly tb test because part of the week I work with people with lowered immune systems. I had mine a couple of weeks ago. I do not have tb.

Lots of people here have stomach flu. A girl i know at work was in the hospital with it this week. She's usually super healthy.

[smokester]

Wow!!  Disturbing

It was as he didn't let on what he had until near the end.  I spent a lot of time with him in a hospital in Coppetts Wood, Muswell Hill, a hospital was kinda famous here in the U.K as it treated rare infectious and tropical diseases. As a cruel irony, it was knocked down and a housing development built on it which is where Alexander Litvinenko lived and died.  Had it still existed, he would have probably been treated there.

Another interesting thing about my pal who died was that he was Natalie Roles' boyfriend at the time.  She was really messed up over it all but shortly afterwards landed that role in The Bill which was a huge step up in acting for her, and I was glad to see that things had turned around for her at last.

[Geemonster]

The web life weaves huh?

[goldshirt*9]

unfortunately with the input of immigrants from various countries
TB is returning.
 

[smokester]

unfortunately with the input of immigrants from various countries
TB is returning.

There is under 10,000 cases a year here compared to 120,000 a year in the past, so we ain't doing bad.  My pal died from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) which is on the increase worldwide but my friend actually caught it 15-20 years before he died - it just lay dormant in him till his 30's.

[goldshirt*9]

my friend thought she caught the disease when she had her second child 9 years ago.

in a country where we had nearly no cases of tb we now have plenty.
the influx of people should be vetted / vaccinated for these sort of diseases.

[subvinorosa]

Lots of TB cases here.  I'm monitored every year for it, don't have it.

So yer all safe.

And oh yeah, drinking prolly, after the homework.

[smokester]

my friend thought she caught the disease when she had her second child 9 years ago.

in a country where we had nearly no cases of tb we now have plenty.
the influx of people should be vetted / vaccinated for these sort of diseases.

My last girlfriend did her dissertation in Mycobacterium bovis (Bovine TB) which is spread by badgers and rife throughout the country. It can spread TB to humans by drinking infected milk and can even go airborne, and then it can jump from human to human and a lot of other species of animal.  It is the historic cause of a lot of the cases of TB in this country but these days is pretty much under control, however, people who come from other countries who have had mild forms of TB from wherever it is they come from, like a lot of us have had here with our own TB, then get Multidrug resistant cases when the 2 strains mix.  Not only that, but a lot of us pick it up from travelling and bring MDR-TB back with us which then adds to the moderate increases.

[subvinorosa]

Working.  I have work all week.  I hate having to work on Christmas Eve.

[goldshirt*9]

Working.  I have work all week.  I hate having to work on Christmas Eve.

never mind.
i finish on Wednesday and go back to work on Jan 4th. 

wife works most of xmas i'm afraid .
joy of being a carer

[smokester]

Tonight I will be listening to the never ceasing sound of children coughing.

Not their fault of course but impossible to sleep through.

[goldshirt*9]

Tonight I will be listening to the never ceasing sound of children coughing.

Not their fault of course but impossible to sleep through.

of all the things children catch , a cough is the worst .( of the lesser bugs around)
constantly no sleep for anyone.
you could boil electric  kettle in their bedroom with the lid open / off.
it doesn't turn off and the steam helps the children breath better.
just be careful of the kettle and children