Pig flu at epidemic levels in London and Brum

[Cyberman]

Total crap. You blamed the problem on immigrants already in this country. I don't see a shortage of clean water here.

Tell you what, why don't you go and spout your bigoted tulip on a BNP forum or something? I'm sure you'd be more welcome there.

If you are used to not having use of clean water then your standards are set accordingly. Just because water is now available it does not follow immediately that standards wil change. In time they probably will but not necessarily immediately. Surely that is a commonsense argument but you PC guys will shout racist at every argument.

[snaw]

If you are used to not having use of clean water then your standards are set accordingly. Just because water is now available it does not follow immediately that standards wil change. In time they probably will but not necessarily immediately. Surely that is a commonsense argument but you PC guys will shout racist at every argument.

What's the connection between TB and water exactly that you keep banging on about?

[Menelaus]

So does that make Prince Harry 100% English?

Depends on Maj Hewitts' genetics.

Oops.

[DimPrawn]

What's the connection between TB and water exactly that you keep banging on about?

I you don't wash you get TB. That's why cows get it as they hardly ever wash.

HTH

[Moscow Mule]

Surely that is a commonsense argument but you PC guys will shout racist at every argument.

Twat.

[snaw]

I you don't wash you get TB. That's why cows get it as they hardly ever wash.

HTH

When people suffering from active pulmonary TB cough, sneeze, speak, or spit, they expel infectious aerosol droplets 0.5 to 5 µm in diameter. A single sneeze can release up to 40,000 droplets.[22] Each one of these droplets may transmit the disease, since the infectious dose of tuberculosis is very low and the inhalation of just a single bacterium can cause a new infection.[23]

People with prolonged, frequent, or intense contact are at particularly high risk of becoming infected, with an estimated 22% infection rate. A person with active but untreated tuberculosis can infect 10–15 other people per year.[2] Others at risk include people in areas where TB is common, people who inject drugs using unsanitary needles, residents and employees of high-risk congregate settings, medically under-served and low-income populations, high-risk racial or ethnic minority populations, children exposed to adults in high-risk categories, patients immunocompromised by conditions such as HIV/AIDS, people who take immunosuppressant drugs, and health care workers serving these high-risk clients.[24]

Transmission can only occur from people with active — not latent — TB [1]. The probability of transmission from one person to another depends upon the number of infectious droplets expelled by a carrier, the effectiveness of ventilation, the duration of exposure, and the virulence of the M. tuberculosis strain.[7] The chain of transmission can, therefore, be broken by isolating patients with active disease and starting effective anti-tuberculous therapy. After two weeks of such treatment, people with non-resistant active TB generally cease to be contagious. If someone does become infected, then it will take at least 21 days, or three to four weeks, before the newly infected person can transmit the disease to others.[25] TB can also be transmitted by eating meat infected with TB. Mycobacterium bovis causes TB in cattle. (See details below.)

[Moscow Mule]

I you don't wash you get TB. That's why cows get it as they hardly ever wash.

HTH

No, cows get it because the badgers have got it - immigrants see.

[Menelaus]

wail

Heil!

[Menelaus]

I you don't wash you get TB. That's why cows get it as they hardly ever wash.

HTH

Or if you hang about with badgers, oddly.

[DimPrawn]

No, cows get it because the badgers have got it - immigrants see.

Ever see a badger wash?