Used to be they quarantined them, did further testing and if drug resistant they had to remain in a facility for months. 60 min or Dateline did a special on it at one point but you'll never find it anymore. I expect every tropical disease to be making an appearance since those so in love with globalism have enabled tropical mosquitoes, sand flies, etc to take up residence here.
In about 1979 I was moonlighting at a hospital in Trinidad Colorado (across border from New Mexico). On my weekend shift I saw a lady with shaking chills and fever, ordered a CBC, high white count. I went and looked at the smear (ask your doctor last time he went to the lab and did that). Saw all these blue particles in her red blood cells.. thought she might have inclusion bodies from a serious bacterial infection. The hospitalist called me on monday and congratulated me on admitting her because she had falciparum malaria and needed treatment. Oh - she had only been on US soil two weeks, was an illegal way back then. And yep, how do you think Zika got here? This is criminally insane for US leadership to allow this invasion.
I assume that you asked her nationality and travel history.
You looked at a peripheral smear, didn't manage to notice the high grade parasitemia which should have been obvious given her shaking chills, high fever, etc. You know, all of those little parasites in her blood, gametocytes, etc. But you thought that you saw inclusion bodies. Interesting.
."Hospitalists" didn't exist in 1979. The guy congratulated you for admitting someone who clearly should have been admitted. Did he congratulate you for not having initiated appropriate treatment?
Some yrs ago my sister had major sore throat/fever/etc with white/gray patches that the drs said looked like could be diphtheria except.... we don't have it here and she of course was vaccinated for it so they didn't test.... have you heard of any cases stateside?
Americans a profoundly immunized against diphtheria. DPT shots and a kid, then every ten years should get an "adult DT" shot to protect against tetanus- (it still kills...I lost a great uncle to it in the 1970s or so after a cut on his hand. ) I've never seen diphtheria nor heard about in cases in my surgical practice. I would assume it would be picked up quickly by general medicine doctor and treated as an outpatient.
Used to be they quarantined them, did further testing and if drug resistant they had to remain in a facility for months. 60 min or Dateline did a special on it at one point but you'll never find it anymore. I expect every tropical disease to be making an appearance since those so in love with globalism have enabled tropical mosquitoes, sand flies, etc to take up residence here.
In about 1979 I was moonlighting at a hospital in Trinidad Colorado (across border from New Mexico). On my weekend shift I saw a lady with shaking chills and fever, ordered a CBC, high white count. I went and looked at the smear (ask your doctor last time he went to the lab and did that). Saw all these blue particles in her red blood cells.. thought she might have inclusion bodies from a serious bacterial infection. The hospitalist called me on monday and congratulated me on admitting her because she had falciparum malaria and needed treatment. Oh - she had only been on US soil two weeks, was an illegal way back then. And yep, how do you think Zika got here? This is criminally insane for US leadership to allow this invasion.
I assume that you asked her nationality and travel history.
You looked at a peripheral smear, didn't manage to notice the high grade parasitemia which should have been obvious given her shaking chills, high fever, etc. You know, all of those little parasites in her blood, gametocytes, etc. But you thought that you saw inclusion bodies. Interesting.
."Hospitalists" didn't exist in 1979. The guy congratulated you for admitting someone who clearly should have been admitted. Did he congratulate you for not having initiated appropriate treatment?
Some yrs ago my sister had major sore throat/fever/etc with white/gray patches that the drs said looked like could be diphtheria except.... we don't have it here and she of course was vaccinated for it so they didn't test.... have you heard of any cases stateside?
Americans a profoundly immunized against diphtheria. DPT shots and a kid, then every ten years should get an "adult DT" shot to protect against tetanus- (it still kills...I lost a great uncle to it in the 1970s or so after a cut on his hand. ) I've never seen diphtheria nor heard about in cases in my surgical practice. I would assume it would be picked up quickly by general medicine doctor and treated as an outpatient.
But - immigrants bringing it in? surely could.
TB is crossing the border now, heard on the news. There is no way they can test the masses Biden is inviting in.