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Very informative, thank you. With regards to the quarantine facilities, ebola showed us that this can be a very touchy subject - the Americans/Europeans swoopi
by flatline 11y ago
Very informative, thank you. With regards to the quarantine facilities, ebola showed us that this can be a very touchy subject - the Americans/Europeans swooping in and locking people away. Perhaps the fact that TB is more readily treatable, and that patients will generally recover, will help the situation.
- cryoshon 11y agoDepends, really. During the Ebola scare, the Nigerian government came down extremely hard with military enforced curfews, public water/transit shutdowns, involuntary quarantines, etc. Not only did these "harsh" strategies work, they worked spectacularly at preventing widespread infection. I highly doubt these measures would be used against TB, though-- it just isn't deadly enough. The countries with high TB infection rates are the ones without a serviceable central government.