John Green just released a new book “Everything Is Tuberculosis,” and he’s spent years researching. You should talk to him. He is famous for “The Fault In Our Stars.”
Thank you Lawrence O'Donnel for covering the deaths and suffering and disease spreading due to Elon Musk. And thank you Nick Kristof for going to Sudan to find out what is happening.
I agree that Elon Musk is partially to blame for the mayhem with regard to USAID among other agencies. However,
Trump is enabling this to occur. He must be held responsible for the ultimate decisions and consequences of the actions being taken by Musk on behalf of the government. It’s shameful.
I was named after my grandfather’s beloved cousin who died of TB in the 1940s. It was a terrible death. This doesn’t have to be happening again. But the Republican senate approved RFK Jr who is doing anything BUT make America healthy.
I count myself lucky but worry about so many who are not protected from this horrible disease. My mother was sent to a Sanitorium when we were young children because she was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. As an adult I was diagnosed with RA, an autoimmune disease. ...2/
I needed a TB test in order to receive immune suppressing drugs for RA. The test was inconclusive so I underwent a 9 month course of Isoniazid. In Canada, TB medications, including isoniazid, are typically free for most people through provincial health plans.
Untreated tuberculosis can be fatal because the bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, damages the lungs and other organs, leading to respiratory failure, organ failure, and ultimately, death.
A 66% price slash of a little used but powerful drug that prevents tuberculosis (TB) could help stave off the deadly lung disease in millions of people around the world.
Sanofi, a pharmaceutical company based in Paris, announced it will sell the drug rifapentine at the steeply discounted price. The full course of preventive treatment with the drug will drop from $45 to $15.
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Trump is enabling this to occur. He must be held responsible for the ultimate decisions and consequences of the actions being taken by Musk on behalf of the government. It’s shameful.