SA's airborne "Aids+TB mutation in the fast lane" - a global health threat

[AdrianaStuijt]

The Extremely-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis+Aids epidemic in South Africa is spreading fast

This is "Airborne TB+Aids in the fast line" with a 95% mortality statistic and a kill-rate of 20 days in South Africa. The South African epidemic also is spreading fast - in fact it has already reached neighbours Lesotho and Kenya since the country's third outbreak of XDR-TB --  in Tugela Ferry in October 2006 -- had killed more than 200 people - but those are the official government statistics, which have not been updated since that time.

This mutated XDR-TB+Aids strain in South Africa shows a mortality among infected patients of 95%--  and there seem to be no presently-available drugs which can treat these patients, who remain highly infectious to all others around them because they cough out clouds of these TB+Aids mutated bacillii as they sicken and die. Most SA TB-patients however are treated in crowded outpatients clinics and the infection spreads because the unidentified multiple-drug-resistant patients mingle with the 'normal TB' patients until their diagnoses can be confirmed - a process which can take up to six weeks in South Africa.

Moreover, scientists worldwide also cannot even agree on exactly how to accurately test the drug-resistant TB-strains -- an argument even arose as to when a patient should be identified as Multiple-Drug-Resistant and when the patient had arrived at the deadly Extremely-Drug-Resistant stage.
The World Health Organisation has now solved the naming-issue, but is still struggling to find faster-working, more accurate testing methods.

Meanwhile scientists in SA have found that the South African strain of XDR-TB actually is a mutation with the Aids virus which has become the virulent, deadly, highly-infectious airborne strain referred to in laboratories as SA-1. The less virulent strain referred to as Beijing-1, often found in other countries such as China, Russia and former East-block countries, also is found in South Africa. This fact makes the jobs of the country's six -- grossly understaffed, underfunded -- national health department laboratories even more difficult than it already is.

Please note that this is also the country which wants to host the World Cup 2010 soccer tournaments - when 350,000 young male soccer fans are expected to descend on South Africa, from 2009.

See many previous postings on this subject on:

http://groups.msn.com/crimebustersofsouthafrica/_notifications.msnw?type=msg&action=showdiscussion&parent=67&item=3166

[newman]

It is more importent than ever for whites to get out and live to reconquer another day. Get out and let the kaffir become extinct or at least fall to such a state that the world will have no choice but to allow white intervention.

[crazyhorse]

It is more importent than ever for whiyes to get out and live to reconquer another day. get out and let the kaffir become extinct or at least fall to such a state that the world will have no choice but to allow white intervention.

NO! No intervention, blockade Southern Africa, let nothing in and no one or anything out, except whites who want to leave.

[AdrianaStuijt]

It seems to have escaped the notice of the bloggers on this page that TB can and does infect every race group, this nasty little beastie does not discriminate at all! Since this form of XDR-TB+Aids is airborne, everybody who lives in South Africa can get infected with it very easily by patients in the advanced stages, who often cough out huge clouds of these bacillii into their environment. In South Africa, the authorities still do not want to isolate such patients until their diagnoses has actually confirmed their highly-infectious status. that's why this XDR-TB+Aids is spreading so rapidly right now - and also infecting people of other races just as easily.

It doesn't help to say that 'all whites have to leave' because they can't can they? The vast majority of Afrikaners in South Africa will never be able to get off the continent fast enough to avoid this infection. The only thing people can do is to avoid getting infected.

And with the government thus actively siding for this disease and against the community -- it's entirely up to each individual to avoid infection with it. 

A little-known fact is that under South African law - one of the many already made by the ANC-regime due to their overwhelmingly-excessive zeal for 'human rights' -- employers also are not allowed to get their workers tested for any infectious diseases - it's considered another 'human rights violation' to have such testing done, even for job applicants -- and even with permission from the worker concerned, it's actually illegal to have this done. It's undoubtedly undertaken surreptiously though through the private health sector, but if caught, such an employer can actually be arrested and charged with human rights violations against his worker.

So nobody is allowed to know which one of their employees is actually infected with this disease either.

[crazyhorse]

It seems to have escaped the notice of the bloggers on this page that TB can and does infect every race group, this nasty little beastie does not discriminate at all! Since this form of XDR-TB+Aids is airborne, everybody who lives in South Africa can get infected with it very easily by patients in the advanced stages, who often cough out huge clouds of these bacillii into their environment. In South Africa, the authorities still do not want to isolate such patients until their diagnoses has actually confirmed their highly-infectious status. that's why this XDR-TB+Aids is spreading so rapidly right now - and also infecting people of other races just as easily.

It doesn't help to say that 'all whites have to leave' because they can't can they? The vast majority of Afrikaners in South Africa will never be able to get off the continent fast enough to avoid this infection. The only thing people can do is to avoid getting infected.

And with the government thus actively siding for this disease and against the community -- it's entirely up to each individual to avoid infection with it. 

A little-known fact is that under South African law - one of the many already made by the ANC-regime due to their overwhelmingly-excessive zeal for 'human rights' -- employers also are not allowed to get their workers tested for any infectious diseases - it's considered another 'human rights violation' to have such testing done, even for job applicants -- and even with permission from the worker concerned, it's actually illegal to have this done. It's undoubtedly undertaken surreptiously though through the private health sector, but if caught, such an employer can actually be arrested and charged with human rights violations against his worker.

So nobody is allowed to know which one of their employees is actually infected with this disease either.

A very clever sly move on the part of the anc scum, this way they know that this new strain will be easily passed on to as many whites as possible. In other words, if the blacks are dying like flies from this epidemic, let's take as many whites, Indians and coloreds with us as possible.

I fully realise that many, many white people will never be able to leave South Africa due to lack of skills, money and age. I feel so sorry for those who want desperately to leave, but can't.

[nessuno]

Hi AdrianaStuijt - what can people do to avoid infection - short of wearing a mask at all times - if the disease is so prevalent?
This is one of the reasons why better control of immigration/borders/foreign visitors is essential.

[AdrianaStuijt]

I agree. One of the main reasons why TB still spreads so easily however is the fact that it is still ONLY being tested with a 100-year-old sputum test which takes at least 2-3 weeks before a diagnosis is returned. With this new strain of XDR-TB+Aids in South Africa, the patients usually die before their diagnosis has actually confirmed their condition. Border control is essential of course, especially with all those masses of people expected to travel to the World Cup 2010 Soccer Tournaments from 2009 in South Africa. All these travellers are still not being warned by their respective governments of this deadly new epidemic in South Africa, and if you check the travel websites, you will find that they are even being lulled into a false sense of security by their governments' advice that there is a 'vaccine available' which they can use against TB. Indeed there is - for ordinary TB - but not for XDR-TB, which does not respond to any kind of medicine available on the market today.

The only public health official who still was willing to deal with this epidemic scientifically has now been fired by Mbeki only this week. This does not augur well for the future well-being of the population!

[nessuno]

Are there reliable tests for TB that give results faster?
Why would the public health officials of other countries not warn people traveling to South Africa of the threat of exposure to this resistant form of TB?
They should in fact be placing pressure/aiding South Africa in attempts to control it's spread.
Frightening!

[AdrianaStuijt]

The World Health Organisation's TB experts are still searching for more reliable, faster tests for XDR-TB. Until the drug-resistant strains came along, there was no real need for a more modern testing procedure and thus no new testing procedure has been developed as yet. As you could see with that US traveller's case, it took a good six weeks before they could confirm his condition - and even then, the experts did not agree on whether he was suffering from the "multiple-drug resistant strain'  or the 'extremely-drug-resistant-strain'. The MDR-TB strain still responds to two different kind of TB-medications available today, but the XDR-TB strain is totally incurable. It's the fact that this XDR-TB strain has now mutated and combined with the Aids-virus which makes it so difficult to test. What do you test for, the Aids virus or the TB-bacillus, since both exist in the patient's body simultaneously, it's presenting a huge dilemma for the scientific world which won't be solved for years - if ever. Meanwhile, thousands of people are dying of it in Southern Africa now. It's even beginning to interfere in food-production.

[nessuno]

The World Health Organisation's TB experts are still searching for more reliable, faster tests for XDR-TB. Until the drug-resistant strains came along, there was no real need for a more modern testing procedure and thus no new testing procedure has been developed as yet. As you could see with that US traveller's case, it took a good six weeks before they could confirm his condition - and even then, the experts did not agree on whether he was suffering from the "multiple-drug resistant strain'  or the 'extremely-drug-resistant-strain'. The MDR-TB strain still responds to two different kind of TB-medications available today, but the XDR-TB strain is totally incurable. It's the fact that this XDR-TB strain has now mutated and combined with the Aids-virus which makes it so difficult to test. What do you test for, the Aids virus or the TB-bacillus, since both exist in the patient's body simultaneously, it's presenting a huge dilemma for the scientific world which won't be solved for years - if ever. Meanwhile, thousands of people are dying of it in Southern Africa now. It's even beginning to interfere in food-production.

Thank You - your answers are always interesting and eye opening.
I did not realize that we were talking about an incurable form of TB.  I wasn't even aware that it had reached that point.  I was thinking along the lines of MDR TB.
What would you say that governments (especially South Africa's) should be doing to control and eradicate this form of TB.  Is that even possible?
I'm a healthcare professional so I find this all quite alarming.
Thanks again for this very interesting information.

[nessuno]

I just listened to your interview with Jeff Rense on youtube - again very interesting and informative.

[AdrianaStuijt]

Here's a summary of original sources for the XDR-TB epidemic in southern Africa:

Untreatable XDR-TB in South Africa with 98% death rate:

"Original research from 2003 by Professor Tommie Victor of Stellenbosch University, whose team discovered the "SA-1"strain - the mutated combination of TB+HIV which has led to extremely-drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic in SA -- found that the 'XDR-strain is freely passed on into the community because it takes two months to diagnose...'

documents:
http://academic.sun.ac.za/Health/support_services/research/news_tb

World Health Organisation sources:

World Health Organisation Stop TB Department:
[Glenn Thomas, Communications Officer, mobile +41 79 509 0677, email: [email protected]

Stop TB International Partnership:
Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, Communications Officer, Stop TB Partnership, mobile +41 79 254 6835, email: [email protected]

For video and audio:
Chris Black, tel.: +41 22 791 1460, mobile: +41 79 472 6054, email: [email protected]

All press releases, fact sheets and other WHO media material may be found at : http://www.who.int

""Concerns were heightened ... by a cluster of 'virtually untreatable' XDR-TB cases in an area of South Africa with high prevalence of HIV. All but one of the first identified 53 patients died in an average of 25 days after samples were taken for drug resistance tests, including four previously healthy nurses who tested negative for HIV. Last month, the case of an air passenger from the United States infected with XDR-TB also focused attention on the need to address the TB epidemic as an immediate international priority."

Listen to the National Public Radio broadcast by the World Health Organisation  in the USA here: http://www.npr.org:80/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6479589
View scenes at SA TB hospital in Voice of America information video about XDR-TB in SA:
link:


Worldwide search for Aids-TB vaccines:
http://www.iavi.org/viewfile.cfm?fid=416

Old-fashioned sputum-TB-testing problems: details fromWorld Health Organisation Green Light Committee for TB-testing:http://www.who.int/entity/tb/xdr/news_mar07.pdf

Many original links to research documents are contained on the many stories on following two threads:

SA president fires only pro-science top health official August 10 2007:http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2161442,00.html

"Could XDR-TB epidemic in SA become a world-wide threat?"http://groups.msn.com/CRIMEBUSTERSofSouthAfrica/alertsonhealth.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=3166&LastModified=4675634605814624071

TB testing in SA -- difficult to get for free on demand:
http://www.news24.com/News24/MyNews24/Letters/0,,2-2127-2129_2153940,00.html

"Overflow XDR-TB patients dumped in SA prisons, open hospitals:
http://groups.msn.com/CRIMEBUSTERSofSouthAfrica/alertsonhealth.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=3475&LastModified=4675631978136134364

[cjd]

Adriana thank you for the informed posts I can't tell you how distressing it is to see that this is not taken more seriously. In some aspects it seems like this is something that is being swept under the rug. Today with world travel possible to almost everyone  the possibility of coming into contact with people carrying this disease is very present. I know that TB is contagious through direct airborne contact however is it possible to get the infection from entering a confined space like an elevator or auto shortly after an infected person was there? Today with all the sealed off air conditioned spaces that recirculate air is it possible that even more people would come into contact with this?

[Wayne Jude]

horrible dise se

[nessuno]

horrible dise se

Even if it is a strain that can be treated with medication - taking the medication is no picnic either.