It’s a mystery, it is. /sarc

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‘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…’

30 thoughts on “It’s a mystery, it is. /sarc”

  1. 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

    • 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..

  3. 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.

    • 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..

    • I don’t think they do, RWT. That would violate their yooman rites or something.

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

  7. Another proud legacy of the Labour Party.

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

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

    A deeply covered up little secret.

          • 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?

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

    • 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. 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.

    • 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

      • 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-

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