Comments on: look out! disease!! and I don’t want to admit it but… http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: duane http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10427 duane Thu, 31 May 2007 14:45:41 +0000 http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10427 Greg, excellent point. There are lots of people that when they test, test positive for TB; BUT DON'T HAVE IT. Also, important question here, when you were put on the meds, did you take them diligently, on time, for the entire 6 months as you were instructed to? Because, if not, which is the case with many people, THAT is how drug resistant strains of TB are created. People are lazy when it comes to treating diseases, and for whatever reason, especially lazy when it comes to bacterial infections, which are treated by anti-bacterial drugs. Whenever you get an antibiotic, it explicitly says to TAKE THE ENTIRE bottle of medication, or in the case with things like TB, take the entire round of antibiotics, religiously. What most people do, is take it until they feel better, and then stop; which welcomes the bacteria to come back stronger, and often times, resistant to the drug that can stop it (thus creating the drug resistant strains). It is a very scary thing, and it is unfortunately, our future; these drug resistant strains of bacteria are going to become a lot more common over the next decade, mainly because of this lack of adherence to medication, as well as the fact that we haven't developed many different alternatives for treating bacteria, other than the staples (which includes penicillin). THAT should be our concern, drug adherence, and the effect it has on everyone; NOT one case of TB. And for the record, even if I did know you had TB, I wouldn't be worried; in order to work in a hospital, you have to be tested, and you have to sign a waiver saying that you realize you will most likely be exposed to TB while working there. I volunteered in a hospital for more than a year and never got it. Lucky me? No, just hard to catch for someone with a normal immune system. And Simon, thanks, I totally agree. As for this: <blockquote>We have a lot worse to fear than one person with TB.</blockquote> You couldn't be more correct. This should be the LEAST of our worries. Greg, excellent point. There are lots of people that when they test, test positive for TB; BUT DON’T HAVE IT. Also, important question here, when you were put on the meds, did you take them diligently, on time, for the entire 6 months as you were instructed to? Because, if not, which is the case with many people, THAT is how drug resistant strains of TB are created. People are lazy when it comes to treating diseases, and for whatever reason, especially lazy when it comes to bacterial infections, which are treated by anti-bacterial drugs. Whenever you get an antibiotic, it explicitly says to TAKE THE ENTIRE bottle of medication, or in the case with things like TB, take the entire round of antibiotics, religiously. What most people do, is take it until they feel better, and then stop; which welcomes the bacteria to come back stronger, and often times, resistant to the drug that can stop it (thus creating the drug resistant strains). It is a very scary thing, and it is unfortunately, our future; these drug resistant strains of bacteria are going to become a lot more common over the next decade, mainly because of this lack of adherence to medication, as well as the fact that we haven’t developed many different alternatives for treating bacteria, other than the staples (which includes penicillin).

THAT should be our concern, drug adherence, and the effect it has on everyone; NOT one case of TB.

And for the record, even if I did know you had TB, I wouldn’t be worried; in order to work in a hospital, you have to be tested, and you have to sign a waiver saying that you realize you will most likely be exposed to TB while working there. I volunteered in a hospital for more than a year and never got it. Lucky me? No, just hard to catch for someone with a normal immune system.

And Simon, thanks, I totally agree. As for this:

We have a lot worse to fear than one person with TB.

You couldn’t be more correct. This should be the LEAST of our worries.

]]> By: Simon http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10386 Simon Thu, 31 May 2007 03:42:13 +0000 http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10386 Duane, I was waiting for your post about this. The media is driving me damn crazy. Enough already. We have a lot worse to fear than one person with TB. As for Walmart, I hated the store until they opened the new one on Howell Mill. I so rarely go there that the grocery section makes me feel like I'm in a foreign country with all the unfamiliar brands, albeit a country that is even more American than the one I live in. Duane, I was waiting for your post about this. The media is driving me damn crazy. Enough already. We have a lot worse to fear than one person with TB.

As for Walmart, I hated the store until they opened the new one on Howell Mill. I so rarely go there that the grocery section makes me feel like I’m in a foreign country with all the unfamiliar brands, albeit a country that is even more American than the one I live in.

]]> By: Greg http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10384 Greg Thu, 31 May 2007 02:52:32 +0000 http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10384 How many cases are false positives though, as part of my immigration process I was tested for TB and it came back positive, mainly due to a BCG vaccine that's given to UK kids when they're about 12/13 Regardless, I wasn't told not to go anywhere, they just put me on Isoniazid for 6 months and sent me on my merry way... Betcha didn't know that during all those APWBWGTTD meet I was at from December 05 to May 06 huh? How many cases are false positives though, as part of my immigration process I was tested for TB and it came back positive, mainly due to a BCG vaccine that’s given to UK kids when they’re about 12/13

Regardless, I wasn’t told not to go anywhere, they just put me on Isoniazid for 6 months and sent me on my merry way…

Betcha didn’t know that during all those APWBWGTTD meet I was at from December 05 to May 06 huh?

]]> By: Joel http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10364 Joel Wed, 30 May 2007 21:07:05 +0000 http://www.duanemoody.com/2007/05/look-out-disease-and-i-dont-want-to-admit-it-but/#comment-10364 <bad Australian accent> I said, the TB ate your baby. </bad Australian accent> <bad Australian accent>
I said, the TB ate your baby.
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