Tuberculosis

News
August 9, 2012
Did You Know MIA Has a Quarantine Station?
Blogs
July 30, 2012
Florida Quarantined Tuberculosis Patients in Some Random Jacksonville Motel
Remember how the Palm Beach Post figured out that Florida covered up the worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years and that "the itinerant homeless, drug-addicted, mentally ill people at the core of the Jacksonville TB cluster are almost impossible to keep on their medications" and that they were stum ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2012
Tuberculosis Can Spread Through Bong Tokes and Other Weird Facts About "White Plague"
See also "Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of 'Poor Black Men' Secet as Disease Spreads" and "Are Medical Marijuana Claims Made in Reggae Songs True?"The Palm Beach Post's Stacey Singer on Sunday delivered a stellar investigation into the state's worst tuberculous outbreak in two decades ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2012
Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of "Poor Black Men" Secret as Disease Spreads
An outbreak of tuberculosis has spread from Jacksonville to as far south as Miami and was kept secret from the public, according to an expose by the Palm Beach Post. The CDC team investigating the spread said it is the worst it's investigated in 20 years. At the time of their report in April, 13 de ... More >>
News
April 13, 2000
The Last Sanatorium
When tuberculosis, one of mankind's most pernicious diseases, threatens public health, the patients are sent to A.G. Holley State Hospital