Unwelcome Omiyage

[Mulboyne]

Times Colonist: Japanese student gives TB to host family
A Nanaimo mother is frustrated with Vancouver Island University after her three-year-old son contracted tuberculosis after being exposed to an infected exchange student visiting from Japan. Maleah Davies's son had a positive skin test for TB and will begin at least a nine-month medical regime that could have some nasty side effects....The campus director of health found out that a student, who tested positive for TB, had spent nearly four months at the Tamagawa campus in Cedar and had been living with a host family between March 30 and July 20 of that same year. That host was Davies's ex-husband. Her two sons spent weekends at their dad's home and had to be tested for exposure. The oldest son had negative test results, but the youngest had a positive skin test...Davies contacted the school to find out why the student wasn't screened before he arrived...Officials at the Tamagawa University campus in Cedar said students who stay for the four-month program are not required to have TB testing...more...

[Christoff]

Although I have never been given TB by a japanses guest, left that one to mexican cows (don't ask), I think I can say with certainty that we have all been given omiage that was eight unwelcome or unwonted.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

so glad all the japanese decide to do things to cancel their holidays abroad due to swine flu so they could stay at home incubating things like this to take abroad.

what's the official party line on how this happened? did some foreigner inject TB directly into the student just before he left japan?

[bolt_krank]

There was this guy in Roppongi..... probably was selling pot too....

[Coligny]

From the article:

July 20 of that same year. That host was Davies's ex-husband.

It's me and my failling english or is this whole article trying really hard to be the litterature equivalent of an Mc Escher's drawing ?

[Bucky]

As I recall Mrs. Bucky had to under go a TB test before the US of A Immigration would allow her to enter the US as my spouse. We had to ship the Xrays off to some place or another. This was back in '83 so I do not know if times have changed or not.

[Bucky]

From the article:

July 20 of that same year. That host was Davies's ex-husband.

It's me and my failling english or is this whole article trying really hard to be the litterature equivalent of an Mc Escher's drawing ?

Coligny, You are correct. It is a poorly written article.

[GomiGirl]

Last year or the year before, a friend of mine came down with TB here. Isolation ward for months, still on medication.

Did they stop vaccinating here or something?

[Iraira]

As I recall Mrs. Bucky had to under go a TB test before the US of A Immigration would allow her to enter the US as my spouse. We had to ship the Xrays off to some place or another. This was back in '83 so I do not know if times have changed or not.

Only thing I found (and it was not an exhaustive search) was something regarding foreign-born students from certain countries enterring Alabama schools needing proof of TB-negativity. Being Alabama, there is probably no requirement that your mom and dad are not brother and sister.

[American Oyaji]

Only thing I found (and it was not an exhaustive search) was something regarding foreign-born students from certain countries enterring Alabama schools needing proof of TB-negativity. Being Alabama, there is probably no requirement that your mom and dad are not brother and sister.

Naw, that's West Virginia.

[Coligny]

Last year or the year before, a friend of mine came down with TB here. Isolation ward for months, still on medication.

Did they stop vaccinating here or something?

It ain't like tetanus...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis

The subject would deserve a whole forum on its own... (and certainly have)

Vaccine works for kids but unreliable for adult pulmonary TB...

And meningitis is -surprise for me- a form of serious TB... Don't know if it include the japanese meningitis... but it sure as hell seems to make Japan a craddle of pain... (that and the widespread availability of non pasteurized milk... was kind of a shock when I arrived to find milk that have to be stored cold and with an expiry date of less than 3 month...)

Side note... there is a revival of TB case in France, linked with massive raise in case of thyroid... malfunction... All seemingly linked to the Tchernobyl accident...

Because mind you... when the reactor blew... governement put the propaganda machine on full blast and told everybody that all was find and a magic anti-cyclone was pushing the radioactive clouds away from our borders. Every meteorological map describing this really special occurence look like it was drown by a drooling retard with a crayon... But it totally worked and even mushrooms where harvested as usual... (1)
Best part for the end... the guy in charge of the whole cover up was...

Nicolas Sarkozy...

Actual president... if any accident happen while this guy is in charge we are as fracked as a schoolgirl in a stranger's van...



(1) In any case of radioactive leak, mushroom are excellent -concentrators/indicators- of the extend of said leak. But after that, burrying all harvest deeper than Enron accounting books is the only way to be safe...

[Mike Oxlong]

What's the deal with missing TB here? School kids get mandatory yearly medical check-ups, companies require yearly medical check-ups (with the oh-so-popular with foreigners chest x-ray), people visit the clinic/hospital at the slightest sign of the sniffles...

[leitmotiv]

What's the deal with missing TB here?

Japan's vaccine industry is notoriously poorly planned, uncompetitive, and highly protected from vaccine technology advances that do not originate in Japan, thus is stuck in a time warp of approx 1980. In a nutshell.

[Christoff]

Japan's vaccine industry is notoriously poorly planned, uncompetitive, and highly protected from vaccine technology advances that do not originate in Japan, thus is stuck in a time warp of approx 1980. In a nutshell.

Well considering we do not vaccinated for TB in the US that is a hell of a lot better....

[leitmotiv]

Well considering we do not vaccinated for TB in the US that is a hell of a lot better....

The US generally screens for TB but does not recommend general vaccination for whole population. TB is currently such a problem in asia that TB vaccine recommendation generally crosses the cost/benefit column for public health policies in asia, but does not (currently) meet that decision threshold in the US.

This is why kids vaccinated in Japan who enter US schools (for example) have to certify that they have TB antibodies due to vaccination and not infection.

[IkemenTommy]

Japanese student gives TB to host family[/URL]
A Nanaimo mother is frustrated with Vancouver Island University after her three-year-old son contracted tuberculosis after being exposed to an infected exchange student visiting from Japan.

You guys blame it all on the Japanese student but shouldn't the Canadian kid supposed to be immunized too? I am not trying to condone him for not having the shots, but this article does seem a little one-sided, don't you think?

[Marked Trail]

Did they stop vaccinating [for TB] here or something?

As Coligny and others said...

In the late 70s and early 80s, developed countries stopped giving the BCG vaccine to prevent tuberculosis routinely to school-age children]adventure vacations[/B] in Asia (as most Western gaijin do), just get f*cking inoculated for EVERYTHING:

COPD, Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccine;

C.G.--- Diphtheria-tetanus;

Oral Poliomyelitis; hepatitis; as well as human papillomavirus (HPV); and

even smallpox (if you can find it since that well be the future method of terrorism).

The risk is 000.1% and the benefit of peace-of-mind in Asia (not N. America) is 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999 x 23rd %.