Tuberculosis cases on the rise in UK: warning it could be mistaken for common cold

Warning of 'Victorian disease easily mistaken for a winter cold

 

Gee, I can't imagine why people would have this idea that a serious respiratory illness could be just a cold.

Certainly can't think of where they could have gotten this idea.

A total mystery we will never solve, for sure.

 

Numerous publications reporting this:

I can remember having BCG vaccinations at secondary school.
The NHS vaccination program was stopped on the grounds of it being 'uneconomical'.

Benefits and costs of the schools' BCG vaccination programme. | The BMJ

Hmm.
paper from 2016
Duration of BCG protection against tuberculosis and change in effectiveness with time since vaccination in Norway: a retrospective population-based cohort study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases

add mass immigration of unvaccinated people..... shouldn't come as a surprise.

 

May I be gone before the resurgence of plague wagons and calls of bring out your dead.

 

I can't help but think the healthcare systems across the entire west (the world?) have been so broken by "its just a cold *cough* Covid *cough*" and the lack of public health around all respiratory diseases that if you do turn up with TB they will simply send you home with a "mystery" virus diagnosis.

 

For sure! The worst part is that we have known how to eradicate TB since the fifties. They pretty much eradicated it from the US at the time by actively searching for it through a screening program with x-ray vans.

Yet it’s the deadliest curable disease in the world, with over 1 million deaths annually. Most of those occur in underdeveloped countries because the company that holds the patents for the quick tests inflates the prices to make more money for their rich owners. And treatment takes months with a cocktail of drugs because nobody bothered to try to make it cheaper and more accessible when TB didn’t affect wealthy people.

John Green has been working on increasing awareness about this for a while (and working with those who started long before him). He recently published a book called Everything is Tuberculosis.