If the US instead elected to expand detection of dormant tuberculosis
among immigrants and refugees from Mexico by the addition of tuberculosis skin
tests to chest X-rays, TB-related costs would increase by $329 million, while
preventing only 401 tuberculosis cases and 30 deaths--over the same 20-year
period. "This strategy is less effective because many obstacles limit the
successful use of preventive treatment for people with dormant TB infection,"
says Dr. Schwartzman, a researcher in the Respiratory Division of the MUHC,
Assistant Professor of Medicine at McGill University and lead author of the
study. "In addition, many entrants, such as visitors and undocumented
migrants, simply cannot be tested."
"In a world of ever increasing travel and migration, global control of
infectious diseases like TB is in everyone's interests," notes Dr. Menzies.
"It is not surprising that investment abroad can result in improvements in the
health of citizens in these other countries. But what is surprising is the
substantial health and economic benefits for the US, Canada and other
immigrant receiving countries. When it comes to TB, doing the right thing
turns out to be the smart thing."
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health institution with an international reputation for excellence in clinical
programs, research and teaching. The MUHC is a merger of five teaching
hospitals affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University--the
Montreal Children's, Montreal General, Royal Victoria, and Montreal
Neurological Hospitals, as well as the Montreal Chest Institute. Building on
the tradition of medical leadership of the founding hospitals, the goal of the
MUHC is to provide patient care based on the most advanced knowledge in the
health care field, and to contribute to the development of new knowledge.
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US Investment In Tuberculosis Control Abroad Pays Off At Home
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1) "... Particularly striking were the findings regarding Mexico, which is the single largest source of migrants to the United States..."<br />
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For the most part, these are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. If the treatment is so simple and easy, why can't the Mexicans, and all other 3rd world countries, implement it for themselves? Hey, maybe you Canucks can do it for them, if its so easy, and cheap?<br />
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2) Try to find another reason to exist, besides telling the Americans what to do, and how to do it. No, you don't have a god-given right to be a self-righteous, underachieving, overly pompous brat of a neighbor. You're actually quite ridiculous in that pose. Keep it up, and get ready for lots and lots and lots of Americans to take a very active interest in reshaping your society.<br />
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In fact, I volunteer Canada to take over all of the current US commitments to foreign aid.<br />
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<a href="http://www.usaid.gov/">http://www.usaid.gov/</a><br />
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Time to grow up and put up, or shut up.<br />
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That's so cute. You think you have the power to volunteer Hallibuton to us? Adorable.
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
Honestly, why can't Canada put is money where its mouth is, just once? Grow up, Canada, and start paying for your attitude. Literally.
Really, why can't you compose a single coherent response, to either one?
Are you just another rustic mountainside juvenile, with no experiences in any other country, like most canucks?
By the way, TB is extemely widespread in Kenya (Nairobi has the dubious distinction of being the world TB capital, btw).
Can any "I don't hate Americans, I only hate their govenment" poster respond in a meaningful way?
Surely Canada is ready to stand up for itself, and start paying for its supposedly high moral ground with actions!
Come on, show the world how you ignorant rural hayseeds will fix all suffering in one swell foop. Surely one of you can sum up the solutions to world peace in 50 words or less!
Socialism? Communsim? Free health care? Free money? Group hug? Smoke dope? Crawl off in the wilderness, and post on the internet pretending to be self sufficient?
You Canadians have put yourselves in a bit of a corner: you hate americans, while assiduously stating you don't, and you claim this as your key identity issue, while assiduously stating you don't.
Canadians also keep acting like the world's biggest adolescent brats, declaring all kinds of newly discovered truths, but ignoring the fact that America, along with the rest of the world, has been dealing with those truths as a matter of course.
Canada is a juvenile nation.
Simply put, Canada cannot defend itself, define itself, nor come up with a good reason to continue to exist.