Tuberculosis Outbreak in KC (2 Viewers)

[tjharris]

I've been reading about this TB outbreak in Kansas City. Especially with the Kansas City fans coming to town next weekend.
I was vaccinated 30 years ago when my pawpaw died from TB but I think it's worn off by now https://abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...outbreak-us-history-health/story?id=118174420

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Isn’t KC one of the possible ground zeroes for the 1919 ‘spanish’ flu?

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Every day I wake up in this country I think to myself "what a terrible day to know how to read."

 

[Buickman]

Go get your shots now.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Tom Brady has that effect on many communities.

 

[Saintman2884]

Isn’t KC one of the possible ground zeroes for the 1919 ‘spanish’ flu?

It began with "Patient Zero", a sick, dying training WWI American soldier who was hospitalized at Ft. Leavenworth, KS in and around March-April 1918 with some mysterious ailment and then died soon after, but not before infecting most of other sick, wounded soldiers in the infirmary at the time, and then proceeding to cross the Atlantic and infect, sicken and kill hundreds of thousands of Allied and Central Powers soldiers, officers, and civilians in war-torn countries in UK, especially terrain-ravaged and badly-maimed northeastern France, occupied Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and neutral nations like Switzerland, Portugal and Spain, where an uncensored press actually was one of the few Western nations telling the truth about the spread, intensity and extremes and potency of the H1N1 virus, therefore it got the nickname, " Spanish Flu" by Western media reporters, observers and later on, historians. The virulent, potent nature of the H1N1 virus sort of began to wither and loose strength by 1920-21 by the time it reached Far East, Japan, China and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) so the death toll due "Spanish Flu" in those countries wasnt as high in that part of the world as it was in USA, UK, France and European countries. Plus, we didnt live in such a highly-interconnected, globalised economy and world back then so information and diseases didnt necessarily spread as quickly as lets say the novel Coronavirus-19.

Plus Guido, probably a lot of ordinary peoples lives mightve been saved or hundreds of thousands, if not millions worldwide wouldn't have gotten so sick if they had practiced commonsense hygienic techniques like washing your hands and bathing at least somewhat regularly.

 

[Devildog]

Every day I wake up in this country I think to myself "what a terrible day to know how to read."

That's funny but also very true. And it's only the beginning of February.

 

[donato]

It began with "Patient Zero", a sick, dying training WWI American soldier who was hospitalized at Ft. Leavenworth, KS in and around March-April 1918 with some mysterious ailment and then died soon after, but not before infecting most of other sick, wounded soldiers in the infirmary at the time, and then proceeding to cross the Atlantic and infect, sicken and kill hundreds of thousands of Allied and Central Powers soldiers, officers, and civilians in war-torn countries in UK, especially terrain-ravaged and badly-maimed northeastern France, occupied Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and neutral nations like Switzerland, Portugal and Spain, where an uncensored press actually was one of the few Western nations telling the truth about the spread, intensity and extremes and potency of the H1N1 virus, therefore it got the nickname, " Spanish Flu" by Western media reporters, observers and later on, historians. The virulent, potent nature of the H1N1 virus sort of began to wither and loose strength by 1920-21 by the time it reached Far East, Japan, China and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) so the death toll due "Spanish Flu" in those countries wasnt as high in that part of the world as it was in USA, UK, France and European countries. Plus, we didnt live in such a highly-interconnected, globalised economy and world back then so information and diseases didnt necessarily spread as quickly as lets say the novel Coronavirus-19.

Plus Guido, probably a lot of ordinary peoples lives mightve been saved or hundreds of thousands, if not millions worldwide wouldn't have gotten so sick if they had practiced commonsense hygienic techniques like washing your hands and bathing at least somewhat regularly.

That's certainly one way to answer a yes or no question.

 

[Saintman2884]

That's certainly one way to answer a yes or no question.

I thought a more detailed, thorough analysis and explanation of how the H1N1 pandemic virus began and then mutated and spread across the Atlantic and infected and killed tens of millions of American, British, French and German soldiers, civilians was needed.

There's likely a segment of the American population that don't know or aren't aware that the "Spanish Flu" pandemic began at Ft. Leavenworth, KS. For many years even I wasnt aware of this as I had long thought that one primary factor for the cause and spread of the H1N1 virus was due to pathogens caused by nearly four years of microscopic, biological soil being repeatedly blown up and an entire generation of soldiers living for entire months in crowded, cramped, labyrinthine of maze-like trenches ridden with diseases, malnutrition, hunger and badly-mangled dead bodies all across northeastern France and Belgium might've been an ideal breeding ground for what became the "Spanish Flu" worldwide pandemic from 1918-21.

I don't see why it would be such a big deal. At least I'm trying to sound informative and helpful in providing an historical backdrop to arguably this planet's worst pandemic since the late medieval bubonic "Black Death" pandemics which regularly hit Europe several times over a 300-400 year period and reportedly, according to some ancient classicists and Greco-Roman historians, the first precursor to the bubonic Plague first showed up in Europe from the late 150's-170's C.E. called the Antonine Plague and occured during the reigns of two Roman emperors, Antonious Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

During the 160's C.E., the Antonine Plague got so prevalent and was devastating that city of Rome became a near ghost-town and it severely affected Aurelius' Germanic campaign but due to the widespread amount of sick men, women and children, the emerging Christian movement in Rome began to be noticed by authorities and Roman elites because they converted their homes, villas and communities into make-shift hospitals and hostels so much so that in 169-70 C.E. Marcus Aurelius issued an edict of toleration towards Rome's Christian community for their work in helping to treat the very sick and dying.

 

[The Nomad]

Every day I wake up in this country I think to myself "what a terrible day to know how to read."

Like the shirt I wore yesterday says, "The More You Know...
The More You Wish You Didn't".