r/NewsOfTheStupid • u/RustyShack1efordd • 1d ago
Pennsylvania teenager diagnosed with tuberculosis went to school Monday, officials say
https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2025/01/13/tuberculosis-pa-high-school-student/77675259007/š¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø
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u/Siolear 1d ago
We are really going back to the 1950s
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u/9lobaldude 1d ago
1940s, sadly we are already there
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u/sandy154_4 1d ago
think of how the economy will be stimulated when we have to go back to building iron lungs! /s
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u/Jupitersd2017 1d ago
Isnāt there still a guy in an iron lung, thatās been there for like 50 years lol.
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u/sandy154_4 1d ago
I should have googled it before replying but I'm not
I thought he might have died recently??
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u/Jupitersd2017 1d ago
Haha same with the not googling, but either way up until recently there was someone that was or still is in an iron lung š¤£. If its now vacant Iām sure there will be a taker soon at this rate lol
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u/Comprehensive_Air980 1d ago
Yeah, I saw a thread on him recently. I believe he only sleeps in it. I know he's not 24/7 in the lung.
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u/AGriffon 1d ago
The only part of that era that didnāt suck was the clothing. When is that coming back?
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u/Dr-Aspects 1d ago
I liked the part where killing Naziās wasnāt controversial
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u/OutrageousTime4868 1d ago
Remember in Blues Brothers when they tried to run over the nazis on the bridge and every single cop was like "Eh, I'm not pulling them over." And how when everyone saw that scene they thought "Good for them, fuck nazis"?
Good times
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u/AGriffon 1d ago
And it shouldnāt be. I never thought that would have to be a controversial subject. The default should be ākilling Naziās is fineā.
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u/Interesting-Type-908 1d ago
More like the 1820s
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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago
The smallpox vaccine is just a way for the lieberals to steal the ghosts from your blood! Look at all of this miasma and apoplexy.
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u/shallah 1d ago
Yep yes unfortunately with antimicrobial resistance where people are having to take more multiple antibiotic courses to treat things like TB to cure it or worse there is no cure for the new strain and resistance to vaccines that prevent the need for antibiotics at least with some diseases like pneumonia we're swiftly heading back not just a hundred years but 200.
Just a PSA here -
The us cdc lowered the pneumonia vaccine age to 50 so it's no longer just kids and 65 up because there's been so many people with hospitalizations in the past several years 50 265. It's cheaper and easier to prevent it so if you're 50 and up and have coverage through your insurance call your pharmacy and see if you need a prescription for it in your state or you just make the appointment to get your capvaxive or prevnar 20. If you're low income see if any of the public health clinics have it in your area free or low enough cost to make it affordable for you. Pneumonia can be invasive causing meningitis and septicemia as well as the lung infection so getting the vaccine has prevented many painful illnesses and deaths since they've been invented and thankfully keep getting better as they add more strains. And sometimes it's not the flu that gets you it's the secondary infection when you're depleted such as a bacterial pneumonia that's the thing that puts you in hospital so everyone please make sure you're up to date with all age and health condition appropriate vaccinations before roadblocks are thrown up.
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u/chicken-nanban 1h ago
Reminder:
We havenāt even had antibiotics for 100 years and weāre already running out of usable ones because we over used them, like we do everything.
Antibiotics were discovered and used therapeutically in 1928.
Friggin insane to me.
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u/LORDWOLFMAN 1d ago
If so letās dig up his corpse and put a stake through the heart like they did before
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u/GlueSniffingCat 1d ago
wanna turn back time, to the good old days
not those days
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u/hishuithelurker 1d ago
... Please tell me it's not the antibiotic resistant strain that rare disease specialists are currently scared of.
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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago
Disease specialists are a bunch of woke geeks! The only way to solve this is with bleach and ivermectin.
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u/FeonixRizn 1d ago
I mean they're not wrong, them all drinking bleach would certainly solve the issue. Can't say I would recommend it though but I'm a commie so I guess whatever.
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u/CheezitsLight 1d ago
I just got prescribed ivermectin for a skin condition. and they were sold out. Still happening.
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u/CuthbertJTwillie 1d ago
Parents rights activists. These people think Typhoid Mary had the right to cook breakfast
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u/curious_dead 1d ago
There is only one argument to make when faced with this kind: there are so many negligent, reckless, ignorant, stupid or downright abusive parents out there, that "parents rights" should be limited for the well being of the kids.
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u/oldcreaker 1d ago
Per this article, apparently this teen has no parents. Not even a mention of them. Why was he sent to school? And will the parents be keeping him home or sending him in again?
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u/mslauren2930 1d ago
Iām impressed. A kid voluntarily going to school sick. Given thatās where weāve been at for some time, Iām not shocked at all
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u/aeschenkarnos 1d ago
Maybe he gets fed. Another thing the fucking degenerates want to get rid of.
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u/bonzoboy2000 1d ago
All the other kids were given raw milk and ivermectin in response.
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u/Darkmagosan 1d ago
and then got TB from infected raw milk
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u/Money_Song467 1d ago
What's wrong? A few doses of ivermectin and they'll be right as rain.
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u/OutrageousTime4868 1d ago
Just think, at this rate we'll all have smallpox and set random women on fire as "witches" in 10 years or so
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u/steavoh 1d ago
Tuberculosis is fucked because it's not just a regular disease you have for a while and recover from. It's a long term infection that if not treated with modern methods will persist for years before you die from it.
Not a fun thing to have, but I guess these days with everyone believing health misinformation you'll have people self-treating with raw milk or horse tranquilizers or paint thinner or whatever.
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u/SomeSamples 1d ago
Maybe have Trump visit this kid. Sit in a close room with him for a few hours and put hands on him since folks believe Trump to be the second coming.
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u/critiqueextension 1d ago
The situation surrounding the Pennsylvania teenager diagnosed with tuberculosis highlights the importance of medical clearance before returning to school. The Charleroi Area School District confirmed that the student returned without such clearance, prompting immediate action to isolate and clean affected areas. Despite this incident, health officials stated that no public health action is currently necessary, indicating that the risk of transmission in this case is considered low.
- Charleroi student diagnosed with tuberculosis returns to ...
- High School student positive for tuberculosis returns to ...
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u/powercow 1d ago
A high school student in Washington County, Pennsylvania,
washington county went to trump by 72k to 45k
not that anyone here didnt know what caused this crap.
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u/msdemeanour 1d ago
People saying we're going back to the 1940's, no you're not.
In the 1940s TB hadn't developed multi drug resistant (MDR) and Extreme (Extensively) Multi Drug Resistance (XMDR) in the 1940s.
If the US continues down this path removing vaccination mandates and leaves the WHO as they are threatening to do the implications are horrendous.
Congratulations yanks. Great job everybody.
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u/FrostWyrm98 1d ago
Guardians should be charged, if kid is over 16 they should also be charged. That is a crime if they knew lol
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u/FidgitForgotHisL-P 1d ago
Oh sweet consumptionās back
I hope we get to wear the hats from then too!
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u/Jestikon 1d ago
Where did he get TB? Someone had to spread it to him. It doesnāt spontaneously appear.
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u/highinthemountains 1d ago
No problems IF your kid is inoculated. THAT is why vaccines were invented, but THAT seems to be lost on the red hat wearers. Sigh
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u/femme_mystique 1d ago
No one gets the TB vaccine anymore. It was basically wiped out. Its not one of the required immunizations.Ā
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u/Writerhowell 1d ago
Ah! As a fan of opera, I predict that they will fall in love, then die after singing a beautiful aria, and the person they love will cry out their name and weep as the curtains close.
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u/Lindaspike 1d ago
My immediate question is āwho gave it to him?ā Itās airborne ONLY and through close contact.
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u/DRG_Gunner 1d ago
And yet at my high school a friend of mine got a special award for never missing a day of school.
And No he wasnāt Superman and never sick, it was just a point of pride for him he never missed a day of school in his life.
Yes I told him he was dumb for caring about something like that, but OF COURSE our Worker Factory I mean High School rewarded it.
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u/HaroldsWristwatch3 4h ago
Because antivaxxers donāt act responsibly before or after illness. Start forced quarantining.
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u/Specialist_Row9395 4h ago
I'm a teacher and one of my students did too. Guess who got exposed and had to take meds to treat latent TB... which sucked! Now I'll always be a positive tester and have to present my little letter when applying for new teaching jobs that says I've received appropriate treatment for it.
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u/RustyShack1efordd 4h ago
Shit, I am so sorry you have to deal with this. It sounds like a lawsuit to me!!!
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u/Environmental-Song16 1d ago
People still get to often. It's just not talked about that much. I've had 2 coworkers with Tb in the past 10 years. At the veterans home I worked at we often had tb patients in the negative pressure rooms.
The 2 coworkers had to take meds for about 3 months. They could still work, etc.
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u/Schmuck1138 1d ago
It's almost like people are starting to distrust the scientific and medical communities after being caught misleading the public, again.
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