[new-nickname-zanovo]

Philadelphia

[RussellPG]

I have no idea. They don't give TB vaccinations in the US, do they, except for high-risk people?

[Speareerfug]

It would seem you're in a high-risk area?

[errolespopume]

My brother has tuberculosis.
My brother has only one lung.
He hocks up a bloody solution
And rolls it around on his tongue!

[Breevereurl]

Philly sure is a shithole.

[Nfvzjvcl]

TB is seeing a resurgence in America that has caught the medical community by surprise. There are outbreaks in other places besides Philly.
You need to take it seriously.

[12Dvop4I]

Philly sure is a shithole.

qft

[Sheefeadalfuh]

You can get exposed to TB and not actually develop TB. That means the injection site of the test will turn red but you don't actually have TB.

[selayeffethy]

You can get exposed to TB and not actually develop TB. That means the injection site of the test will turn red but you don't actually have TB.

No. It has to be red and raised after 48 hours to confirm exposure. The raised area also has to be a certain size.

ACK!

[feqlmwtuqx]

It can still be grown in culture. The problem is that antibacterial drug development of any kind is a costly procedure.

[eXC3Kvnn]

Part of the problem with TB is that mice don't develop TB the same way people do. In humans, the germs often form these nasty little colonies sealed in white capsules of protein or something like that, so that they can't hurt the host or be hurt by it; essentially, it's a stalemate until the capsules rupture. None of that happens in mice. When they get TB, they just get weaker at a constant, very rapid pace before dying. And, since mice are the overwhelming favorite animal for lab testing...well, that throws a wrench in the gears.

Well it's simple. Bring back human testing.

Nazis promoting the medical sciences

[famosetroie]

New York had problems with multi-drug resisant t.b. too.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7791840

NYC... also a shithole

[furious1]

The BCG vaccine doesn't really work very well. Consider the fact that Russia uses the vaccine routinely yet has the highest incidence of TB infection in Europe. I've heard that one quarter of all Russian physicians have tuberculosis.
There's a new strain of tuberculosis in India that is truly resistant to every treatment regimen, but I don't think it has spread to the US yet. India is another country that requires the BCG vaccine, but I don't know how effective their vaccination campaign is.