It’s a mystery, it is. /sarc

Posted on April 28, 2012 by KG

‘Tuberculosis is staging a comeback in London, where some neighborhoods suffer infection rates found in African countries in which the disease is endemic. The number of cases surged 50 percent in the 10 years to 2009, according to a National Health Service agency.
…..The disease was as prevalent in London as in some of the world’s poorer nations in 2010. The city had 43 cases per 100,000 overall and rates of 65 or more per 100,000 in hotbeds such as Tower Hamlets, some of them on par with Karonga district in Malawi, says Ali Zumla, a professor at University College London. By contrast, New York reports nine cases per 100,000 people and Berlin eight…’

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30 Responses to It’s a mystery, it is. /sarc

  1. Katie says:
    April 28, 2012 at 08:13

    Ever wonder who and where they are from is bringing this in? We in the US have had to battle TB for decades now. Brought into the US from Mexico, South and Central America. Now it is becoming antibiotic resistant and guess who is paying for their treatments?

    :rant

    • octagongrappler says:
      April 28, 2012 at 08:24

      Thats the thing, We have become resistent to our own strain for decades, but like cancer new strains and re-introduction means like cancer it becomes more resiliant and sophisticated.

      And in the end the new TB could win out:(

      In Auckland we have seen a rise of once thought wiped out medical issues..

  2. KG says:
    April 28, 2012 at 08:22

    The benefits of importing third-world primitives, Katie. :evil:

  3. The Gantt Guy says:
    April 28, 2012 at 08:23

    Hmmmmm. Watermelons fervently believe there are too many people. TB is doing their dirty work for them. They are killing a million people a year via malaria because of that mass murderer Rachel Carson as the ban on DDT. Just wait for the AIDS thing to *really* ramp up, and it’s a neat little three-prong assault guaranteed to plunge the entire world back into the dark ages.

    • octagongrappler says:
      April 28, 2012 at 08:39

      Gantt

      I have talked to a friend in the medical field and AIDS is being talked down in NZ, But it is on the rise big time and the numbers are being played down..

  4. Right Wing Theocrat says:
    April 28, 2012 at 08:57

    I thought they would do health checks on these people, even the clowns running immigration here do that. well I hope they do.

  6. KG says:
    April 28, 2012 at 09:25

    And still Kiwis and Aussies refuse to wake up. Hell, I doubt a modern yoof graduating hi skool can even spell ‘TB’.

  7. kowtow says:
    April 28, 2012 at 12:12

    Another proud legacy of the Labour Party.

    Third world immigrants,third world diseases,and once great Britain brought low.

  8. Flashman says:
    April 28, 2012 at 17:20

    Foreign students [especially from China] are a common TB vector in New Zealand.

    A deeply covered up little secret.

  9. kowtow says:
    April 28, 2012 at 17:58

    Here’s an interesting exercise in things English.
    One comment was “throw away the crystal ball, the future ‘s already decided”.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/9231326/Revealed-how-popular-is-your-name.html

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      April 28, 2012 at 20:40

      Are they deliberately trying to reduce the population?

      • octagongrappler says:
        April 28, 2012 at 20:41

        In his defence Gantt, He did catch it when he was in NZ :mrgreen:

        • The Gantt Guy says:
          April 28, 2012 at 20:43

          Yeah, right. From those dirty kiwi hookers.

          • octagongrappler says:
            April 28, 2012 at 20:49

            The Hookers are on student visas as well :mrgreen:

            Oh unless it was the fa fa’s on k-rd then… :twisted:

            The whole student market is an immigration scam. So why not just sell immigration spots if the govt seems to want to give residence to anyone who pays 100k for a degree?

  11. octagongrappler says:
    April 28, 2012 at 19:35

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10789435

    And this makes me so MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :gunner :rant

  12. KG says:
    April 28, 2012 at 20:13

    “Immigration says that over the past decade, one in five international students gained permanent residency within five years of being issued their first student visa.”
    If Kiwis don’t want Australia to lower the boom on trans-Tasman migration, they need to clean up their act bloody soon. There’s already a lot of ill-feeling here about NZ being used as a soft gateway to Oz.

  13. octagongrappler says:
    April 28, 2012 at 20:40

    Which means immigration is runnin higher than was thought..These courses you study for residency? I wonder what they are hmmmmmmmmmmm……. :mrgreen:

    • Flashman says:
      April 29, 2012 at 04:49

      A two year NZ diploma in business from an Auckland diploma mill will see you right, Achmed and Suman.

      Don’t worry. We use the same assessments every semester. Employ part-time staff who understand how the game is played [nudge nudge, wink wink]. We don’t check for plagiarism: in fact we encourage it. You get multiple re-sits on failed assessments. And please enquire about our ‘floating student deposit’ scheme to secure your study visas.

  14. WAKE UP says:
    April 29, 2012 at 09:11

    I take absolutely no notice of “statistics” unless they are broken down to ethnicity, education, religion, culture, hygiene, medical practices, superstitions, diet, family size, nationality, length of time in the country etc.

  15. WAKE UP says:
    April 29, 2012 at 09:23

    From the NZ Herald recently: “Suicide and crashes drive NZ’s youth death figures”
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10801472

    I wonder why? Could it be that our youth know, deep down, that we/they are being sold out, but they can’t articulate it or do anything about it? I wonder how much our home-grown students REALLY like being overwhelmed by foreign “students”.

    • octagongrappler says:
      April 29, 2012 at 09:40

      Asia has huge status anxiety issues and massive youth suicide problems..

      There is a belief that those with the top grades are the best workers?

      That is not the case in our western society, There is going to be alot of young kiwi youth who will be forced to get triple degrees to gain a job as we become more aligned to Asia.

      With the rising cost of housing and utilities I predict huge social and mental health problems as our govt sells us out

      • dondiego says:
        April 29, 2012 at 19:33

        Already there on the suicide. I donated some change to a suicide prevention outfit in Christchurch at Easter…
        I’ve been telling people N.Zs buggered for years.
        Perhaps what the youth lack in work-ethic, they make up for in perception.
        I recall Winston Peters mentioning disease and necrophilia amongst the Helen imports also-