Tuberculosis case reported in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Source of information.
1. WXII 12.
https://www.wxii12.com/article/tuberculosis-case-reported-charlotte-mecklenburg-schools-everything-parents-need-to-know/69191218
I feel the school article (as most articles do) downplays the seriousness of this modern resurgence of Tuberculosis so I will take liberties to clarify the gravity of the situation and help establish what is at stake, Ive included some more of the risks and facts associated with TB and some extra facts to consider:
"Usually, the people who are most at risk of getting TB are those who have been around the case for long periods of time"
...COMMENT: That's precisely why we should be concerned about schoolchildren
Pediatric TB may involve the lungs or multisystem disease affecting the central nervous system, lymph nodes, skeletal system, and other organs. Diagnosing TB in children is particularly challenging due to its variable presentations, which can mimic other common pediatric illnesses.
“When people think of deadly diseases, they think of COVID-19, malaria, HIV and diarrheal diseases,” Barron said. “Many are surprised to find that TB kills the highest number of people in the world.”Feb 10, 2025
Tuberculosis was once a disease in decline, but a resurgence in cases has health officials puzzled. An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March 2025.Mar 23, 2025
...COMMENT: That's a recent reassurance and that is justifiably scary. Equally alarming is the fact health officials are puzzled by this resurgence.
..I hesitate with saying "all is well" because typically anytime there is a recent resurgence of anything in history I think it wise to consider that exponential cases could prospectively skyrocket .. That's not the kind of compound interest we wanna disregard as petty. This most recent resurgence in Tuberculoses is not a trivial matter.
I'll show you how this works...Let's take another disease, For instance, whooping cough. My grandmother whose family fled Hungary during Hitler's reign told me she had horrible whooping cough as child traveling from Hungary on Boat to America and saw Statue of Liberty for first time. All my life whooping cough was just a story my grandmother told me ..
...Now I'm 55 years and all in a sudden Whooping cough is yet one more of several illnesses out there to contend with!? plus something new called covid , and what is MPox..oh. man!! !? I mean see what I mean?.. these are mean resurgences be like dodging a shotgun... bound to get hit by at least one of those nasty pellets of illness..what's this hand and foot disease? That's too many and that didn't exist for those of us born in 1971 and so forth..That's the reality is there's simply a significantly larger number of different illnesses circulating going on at the same time today... Oh what torture.. I hate human suffering... Then Tuberculoses makes a comeback and we still have mutations of covid... yeah a resurgence of anything is gonna tilt the human pinball machine at this rate.. resurgences of old diseases and illnesses is about as serious as serious gets. Let's not downplay old diseases and illnesses that make comebacks like that.
See, when I was born in 71 I remember my school years to a tee, I am of sound mind and fit body and back then the only thing was put in the chamber was a little cold, the flu, and the unbearable itchy chicken pox where ya couldn't stop itching or scratching endlessly. That's mere three measly illnesses back in my school years. Now it's like the last half a decade we've been hit by covid plus a blast from the past and resurgence of older diseases making a comeback plus speed/rate of travel combined with warmer climates exsaperating and creating favorable conditions for viruses... ya got at least five, six, or more bullets in the chamber for Russian roulette of infectious diseases nowadays.
Reduce number of airborne illness you put in the chamber for both you and me by wearing a mask like me, kids. Wear an n95 mask, it's worse today than it was yesterday, and doctors should say wear safety mask if you don't wanna get covid or TB like that kid in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schooldistrict,
The Masked man
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