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BREAKING: Thousands May Have Been Exposed to Deadly TB Epidemic in Downtown Los Angeles
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[quote:vind21:MV8yMTQ4NDU1XzM2Mjk5NjcxX0JGOTBBNkQy] I put my green pin on it. 14 February 2013 - Geneva - The participants in a workshop convened last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership have proposed a set of goals and targets to guide the global fight against TB after 2015. Thirty-one experts who included representatives from TB high burden countries, development and technical agencies and research and development entities; advocates from civil society; epidemiologists; and experts on modeling participated in the meeting. The group shared, above all, the aspirational goal of zero TB deaths, zero TB disease and zero suffering. There was broad agreement on a set of interim targets for 2025 designed to accelerate progress towards this goal. The first is to reduce TB deaths by 75% by 2025 compared with 2015, which would mean a decrease from a projected 1.2 million TB deaths in 2015 to 300 000 in 2025. The second, closely related, interim target is to reduce the TB incidence rate (the number of people who develop TB each year, per 100 000 population) by 40% by 2025 compared with 2015. The meeting participants also discussed a third 2025 target linked to universal health coverage, which may feature prominently in the broader post-2015 development agenda. There was consensus on a target of zero catastrophic expenditures for families affected by TB by 2025. Achieving the proposed interim targets will require a dramatic scale up of TB diagnosis and treatment, especially in vulnerable and poor populations; further advances on universal health coverage and economic development and poverty reduction; substantial investment in research and development to accelerate the availability of new TB tools; and widespread uptake of these new tools as they become available. Besides this I find it odd they jsut recently listed TB ad being in high potential for a break out and then one happens a few days later. :siren2::siren2::siren2::siren2: HOW DOES A BREAKOUT HAPPEN IN THE EPICENTER OF A VAST CITY, it doesn't just spontaneously generate in the middle of the hood, and its not like these people whoa re effected where traveling around to get it. [/quote]
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com)
— The feds are descending on downtown Los Angeles to combat what they say might be a dangerous outbreak of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.
Jeff Nguyen, reporting for CBS2 and KCAL9, went downtown in search of people who may have been exposed.
John Williams started living at the Weingart shelter on LA’s Skid Row two weeks ago. Before he could be admitted he had to undergo a screening for tuberculosis.
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