The Pandemic Apocalypse Approaches Closer Still

Tuberculosis still coming in on refugees:

That brings the total of refugees the Vermont Department of Health now admits have been diagnosed with active TB between 2003 and June 30, 2016 to seventeen…

Between 2003 and 2015, the state has recorded 77 cases of active tuberculosis in Vermont. Of those, the Health Department says just 15 were diagnosed in refugees. 26 of the cases were in U.S.-born individuals. The remainder were in people who fell into other categories, like people living in Vermont on student or work visas.

Since only 6,300 refugees have arrived in Vermont over the past twenty-five years, these new statistics reveal a third-world level of active TB among the refugees currently residing in the Green Mountain State.

Doubtless many of those 26 domestic cases caught it from refugees.

The E. coli superbug hasn’t gone away:

For just the second time in the U.S., researchers have found evidence of E. coli bacteria that are genetically resistant to a last-resort antibiotic, according to a report published today in the medical journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

The superbug has a gene that makes it resistant to treatment with colistin, an antibiotic often used by doctors as a last resort for antibiotic-resistant infections, the report states…

Researchers said the global findings are alarming because it means there may be an increasing likelihood of having outbreaks of E. coli bacteria that are totally resistant to antibiotics.

“The fact that the gene has been detected in food livestock and raw meat is also concerning,” said report co-author Mariana Castanheira, the director of micro- and molecular biology at JMI Laboratories.

Dr. Frank Esper, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, said the report was alarming but not surprising for infectious disease experts.

“It’s basically a wake-up call,” he told ABC News. “It’s only going to be a matter of time where the perfect storm happens … Next thing you know, you throw your hands up and say we’re out of ammunition” to fight certain infections.

If it is in livestock and meat, then it is mixing with other bacteria in their GI tracts, and it will be a matter of time before it passes the gene off, and that resistance shows up in other bacteria.

Measles found fertile ground in idiot liberals with no amygdalae:

The nation’s largest measles outbreak may, at least in part, be caused by the refusal of federal immigration detention center workers to get vaccinations. Arizona health officials have pinpointed one detention center as the focal point of the spreading virus…

Thomas Schryer, health director for Pinal County, believes the outbreak most likely began with an immigrant being detained. Since that time, the detainees have all been vaccinated. However, some of the employees of the facility appear to be unwilling to get vaccinations and are apparently spreading the virus.

“And so they’re actually the ones that are passing along the measles among each other and then going out into the community,” Schryer said.

What isn’t often discussed is that these refugees are often being shuttled into jobs in the food industry, processing raw meat, harvesting produce, or even working in the fast food industry. Chobani Yogurt, owned by a Muslim, is keen to hire as many refugees as possible. Nothing quite like potentially putting a refugee which may carry a deadly superbug in a facility filled with massive incubation vats, growing massive numbers of bacteria that people will eat.

And of course, from a statistics perspective if you hire enough then every so often, one of them will likely be a terrorist, who only needs to get one cell into a vat at the right time to potentially infect millions.