Untreatable XDR Tuberculosis Patient Doesn’t Have Untreatable XDR Tuberculosis, Watch for National ID Card
Untreatable XDR Tuberculosis Patient Doesn’t Have Untreatable XDR Tuberculosis. This case will likely be used for federal and public support of the National ID Card
As was to be expected Andrew Speaker, the U.S. tuberculosis patient who set off international alarms after crossing borders and flying around the world, does not have the most dangerous form of TB after all. After a month of testing it’s now been discovered that Speaker has a strain of Tuberculosis that is easier to treat, his doctors said on Tuesday.
His doctors claim that Speaker has multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, known as MDR TB and not a form of the disease known as extensively drug resistant, or XDR.
To be blunt, I’d be shocked to find out that Speaker has any form of tuberculosis.
Remember, Speaker’s father in law works for the CDC. We were told an investigation was underway to see if his father in law’s lab contained any strains of the XDR tuberculosis… There as never really publicity or public scrutiny on the father in law after that announcement was buried beneath Paris Hilton’s stint in prison.
Now we’re being told Speaker isn’t going to die. He doesn’t have untreatable tuberculosis and he will likely be “cured” with fluoroquinolone antibiotics.
With the scrutiny over this case and a father in law working for the CDC it’s impossible that doctors didnt’ realize they were dealing with a treatable, if any case of tuberculosis right from the get go.
This case was used to scare the public into calling for and supporting reform at the borders. If a national ID card can contain medical history, thus keeping someone like Speaker from slipping through the cracks and leaving or entering a country… expect the ID Card to be enacted with full public support.
Speaker is now off the hook. He didn’t make anyone sick. No one is going to die. But don’t expect this case to go away. We will hear about this again and again as talk of national ID cards slowly emerges in mainstream media.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0321047520070703?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true


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