He Didn’t Have to Die. So Why Did He?

December 28, 2011

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http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2011/05/active_case_of_tuberculosis_fo.html

Hello Victoria,

I hope you had a wonderful and joyous Christmas.
I was listening to your show about the young man who was ill and the doctors had not been able to diagnose his illness.
My husband and I frequent a restaurant called the Canby Grand Central Station. A young man, Alex, works there and went to school with our son. When we’d come in and Alex was working, he would always come over and ask about Peter and chat with us for a few minutes. Last week he came over to our table and talked with us for about ten minutes. From our previous visits, Alex had told us that his dad had lost his job and then lost his house. Last week Alex told us his father was living with him but that he, Alex, had not been feeling well. He’d been feeling ill for quite some time but the doctors had not been able to diagnose his issue. They now had him on extra strength antibiotics and that he was feeling a bit better and he hoped this would cure whatever was wrong with him because he was tired of being sick. My son told us last night that on the morning of December 23rd Alex’s father entered his son’s bedroom and Alex had died during the night. Turns out Alex had tuberculosis.
Victoria, I am so angry and sad…….there is no affirmative action in football, basketball, soccer or any other sport. Only the best get to be worthless actors and actresses who hate this county. Yet in issues of life and death, we have affirmative action “healthcare providers” (no longer doctors or nurses) as we dumb down this profession. We give free healthcare to every illegal alien who sneaks across our border, as they bring this illness back into our country and doctors don’t know what the heck it is? In the meantime, young, vibrant, productive young men like Alex die as illegal aliens belly up to the public trough for all their free goodies……courtesy of people like Alex!
God Bless you, Victoria, for all you do in the fight to save our country.
Have wonderful New Year,

http://public.health.oregon.gov/DiseasesConditions/CommunicableDisease/DiseaseSurveillanceData/Tuberculosis/Documents/data/or2010data.pdf

Oregon TB disease incidence remains higher in foreign-born than US-born residents, although the percentage of US-born cases has increased slightly over the past two years. In 2010, 64% of TB cases were among foreign-born residents.
In 2010, 7% of isolates tested were resistant to INH (a primary first-line TB drug). No cases of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB, or TB that is resistant to at least both INH and rifampin) were reported in Oregon in 2010.