A few nice doing business as images I found:
Joplin Missouri -- zygomycosis is an aggressive fungal infection (June 10, 2011) ...item 4.. Florida Dept. of Health Responds to TB Reports -- Harris calls it business as usual. (Updated: Wed 8:04 AM, Jul 11, 2012) ...
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A stubborn and deadly outbreak of tuberculosis in the Jacksonville area is prompting Florida to team up with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to battle the disease, but state health officials insist the situation is under control.
The TB outbreak is linked to 13 deaths and nearly 100 illnesses since 2004, mainly among homeless people. It's estimated about 3,000 people have been exposed to the contagious disease.
Florida asked the CDC for help with the TB cluster in February but not because the situation was out of control, according to Dr. Steven Harris of the state Department of Health. Harris calls it business as usual.
He says the cluster of TB cases did not warrant a public warning because the state did not consider it a public health hazard.
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Infectious disease specialist Dr. Uwe (YOO'-ee) Schmidt says three of the five patients treated for zygomycosis at Freeman Health System in Joplin have died. But noted all the patients had health problems including multiple traumas and pneumonia.
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.....item 1).... Survivors of Joplin Tornado Contract Fungal Infection
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 9:57 AM by Associated Press
Updated: Jun 10, 2011 9:57 AM
www.komu.com/news/survivors-of-joplin-tornado-contract-fu...
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri doctor says his hospital treated five Joplin tornado victims for a rare fungal infection sometimes found in survivors of natural disasters.
Zygomycosis is an aggressive fungal infection that can be caused by soil or vegetative material becoming embedded under the skin. It's now known as mucormycosis.
It's more prevalent in people with weakened immune systems but can affect healthy people who suffer trauma.
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Uwe (YOO'-ee) Schmidt says three of the five patients treated for zygomycosis at Freeman Health System in Joplin have died. But noted all the patients had health problems including multiple traumas and pneumonia.
The state health department says it's received reports of eight suspected deep-skin fungal infections among Joplin tornado victims. She says all sustained trauma from the tornado.
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.....item 2).... CBS NEWS ... Fungal infection strikes Joplin tornado victims
June 10, 2011 3:18 AM
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/10/national/main20070463....
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Lamar, Mo., residents Aaron Finney, foreground, Kieran Hanley, right, and Trevor Hobbs, left, help Missouri State Rep. Mike Kelley (126th District) move a porch into a debris pile, June 8, 2011, in Joplin, Mo. (AP)
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(AP) JOPLIN, Mo. - An aggressive fungus is striking Joplin tornado victims, contributing to a handful of deaths.
Doctors told the Springfield News-Leader that at least nine survivors may have contracted blood-vessel invading zygomycosis infections.
Overall numbers weren't available. The Springfield-Greene County Health Department declined to release them, citing patient privacy concerns.
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Kendra Williams, of the health department, says the common fungus likely came from soil or vegetative materials imbedded in the skin by the tornado.
After the tornado, Freeman Health System in Joplin treated more than 1,700 patients. An infectious disease specialist there, Dr. Uwe Schmidt, says some wounds that were stitched up in that rush of patients had to be reopened because they weren't adequately cleaned and had debris in them.
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.....item 3).... FLORIDA TODAY NEWSPAPER .... www.floridatoday.com .... Meth fills hospitals with burn patients
4:59 PM, Jan. 23, 2012
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.....item 4).... WCTV News ... www.wctv.tv/home/headlines ... Coverage You Can Count On !
Posted: Wed 3:50 AM, Jul 11, 2012 Reporter: The News Service of Florida
Updated: Wed 8:04 AM, Jul 11, 2012Back to Home Page
VIDEO: Florida Dept. of Health Responds to TB Reports
July 11, 2012 -
www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Florida_Dept_of_Health_Respond...
Responding to media reports that he called "outrageous," a top Florida health official late Monday said prudent steps have already been taken to contain what federal investigators have described as the largest outbreak of tuberculosis anywhere in the United States in the past 20 years.
Florida Department of Health officials said a spike in TB cases among homeless people in Jacksonville is being aggressively addressed and recent media reports that the outbreak has been kept secret are not justified. "After these inaccurate reports, it is important for the public to know, the number of TB cases in Florida has been trending downward for several years," said Dr. Steven Harris, DOH deputy secretary for health.
"The increase in this particular strain of non-drug resistant TB has affected approximately 99 people over the past eight years." Harris was responding to a news story first published in The Palm Beach Post and then picked up by other publications. The story related to an April report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following a surge in cases of the highly contagious disease that appeared to be clustered in a homeless shelter, a jail and an outpatient mental health clinic in downtown Jacksonville.
The CDC report raised alarm by noting that the outbreak, first detected in 2009, represented the largest such TB flare-up the CDC had been involved with since the 1990s. The report went on to say most of the potentially infected persons remain undetected and highly mobile, a combination that makes it more difficult to contain and treat the disease, which requires a relatively long and deliberate regiment of drugs and can become resistant.
The report came as state health officials were in the process of closing down A.G. Holley State Hospital in Palm Beach County, the state's last facility dedicated to tuberculosis treatment. Lawmakers involved in the closure have said they had no knowledge of the CDC report. Slated for closure by the end of the year, state health officials accelerated the process and closed the facility six months early.
"I think the two issues are separate," said Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, and chairman of a key Senate health care committee, who said he was unaware of the CDC report, which came out after lawmakers had already completed their work and gone home.
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video ... 07-10-12 DOH SEC ON JAX TUBER
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A stubborn and deadly outbreak of tuberculosis in the Jacksonville area is prompting Florida to team up with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to battle the disease, but state health officials insist the situation is under control. The TB outbreak is linked to 13 deaths and nearly 100 illnesses since 2004, mainly among homeless people. It's estimated about 3,000 people have been exposed to the contagious disease.
Now state and federal health workers are trying to track down as many of those people as possible to check for symptoms of TB, including cough, fever, sweats and weight loss.
Florida asked the CDC for help with the TB cluster in February but not because the situation was out of control, according to Dr. Steven Harris of the state Department of Health. Harris calls it business as usual. He says the cluster of TB cases did not warrant a public warning because the state did not consider it a public health hazard.
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LGE -- Outside the University / Business As Usual
Image by Emilia Tjernström [Arriving at the horizon]
While having lunch during my first day in Santiago, I saw a news broadcast about a student and professors' protest in the city center. They are demonstrating against the General Education Law (Ley General de Educación), which is currently under congressional consideration.
If I have understood everything correctly, this law will replace the Ley Orgánica Conctitucional de Educación (Organic Constitutional Education Law), which people were not happy with, but it allegedly does not solve any of the current problems. The issues appear to be the presence of a profit motive in the educational system and the fact that not everyone has access to quality education.
I only saw the aftermaths of the demonstration, where students had barricaded themselves inside the National University of Chile and the Instituto Nacional, and police were crowding outside. 40 people are said to have been detained throughout the country in these protests.
Perhaps the most amazing thing was to see so many people walk by as though nothing was happening, as though everything was business as usual...
June 4, 2008
business, as usual
Image by when i was a bird
