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Print ArticleTuberculosis Can Spread Through Bong Tokes and Other Weird Facts About "White Plague"
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The Palm Beach Post's Stacey Singer on Sunday delivered a stellar investigation into the state's worst tuberculous outbreak in two decades and how the health department tried to keep it secret.
This is horrible news given how quickly TB can spread and how costly it is to treat. There's a long twisted tale of this brutal disease, which killed more than 1.4 million people in 2010, according to the World Health Organization.
From infected bong tokes to a bunch of dead authors, here are a few fun facts about one of history's greatest killers.
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Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of "Poor Black Men" Secret as Disease Spreads
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The CDC team investigating the spread said it is the worst it's investigated in 20 years. At the time of their report in April, 13 deaths and 99 illnesses had been linked to the strain.
And yet, the public was never notified, and the information was kept from lawmakers. Rick Scott closed a state hospital specializing in the disease, seemingly oblivious to the situation.
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Whooping Cough Cases Surge in Broward, Florida
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According to the most recent data from the Florida Department of Health, 260 cases of whooping cough have been reported throughout the state as of the end of June.
That's 120 more cases of the highly contagious respiratory ailment than there were at the same point last year -- which doesn't bode well for anybody.
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Imagining a Florida Without Medicaid
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In 2009, at least 2.45 million people in Florida were enrolled in Medicaid, according to data from government agencies. Another estimate pegs the number at more than 3 million. That's over a tenth of all people in the state and more than all of the people in the Tampa Bay area. All of those people are below the poverty line, and their health care is provided by a mix of federal and state funds.
But that huge population of the poor and vulnerable is now at the edge of a cliff. Republican Gov. Rick Scott is dead-set on shifting their health care to flat-rate, privatized care programs. And a portion of the Affordable Care Act that tried to build more padding into Medicaid eligibility landed with a thud in the U.S. Supreme Court chambers. Now, states are free to reject any expansion of Medicaid, as Scott did last week, when he vowed not to enforce Obamacare.
It's not too much of a stretch to imagine that the next step involves cutting Medicaid eligibility. The Affordable Care Act's proposed incentive was silly from the start: "If you don't expand Medicaid, we won't give you any money for Medicaid!"
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Obamacare Individual Mandate Upheld; Take That Florida Republicans
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| Pam Bondi (left), with Death Panel Sarah. |
Now, it looks like the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the argument that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, despite the best efforts of Florida's partisan politicos using our tax money to challenge it and get themselves headlines.
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Science Confirms: Old Person Smell Is Totally a Real Thing
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| "Smells different, not bad." --Science |
The ruling is in -- old people smell different, and a study released today reveals that people can identify the smell even when there isn't an actual old person around.
A study from Philadelphia researchers called "The Smell of Age: Perception and Discrimination of Body Odors of Different Ages" dealt with the smells of three age groups: young (between 20 and 30), middle-aged (45 to 55), and old (75 to 95). How did they harvest these smells, you ask? Researchers sewed nursing pads into the armpits of T-shirts and made people sleep in them for a week.
Then, after the week of pad-smellifying (my word, not theirs), researchers made evaluators take big whiffs from these pads and guess which age group the pad came from.
Scripps Gets $8 Million to Create Smoking Treatment; Could Help Coke Heads, Smack Addicts, and Obese People Too!
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The financial burden that comes along with these deaths and all those who survive their various bouts of cancer and emphysema and similarly brutal ailments is more than $150 billion.
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Paul Kenny, a researcher with The Scripps Research Institute up in Jupiter, thinks he has a way to help cut these numbers down, and the National Institutes of Health just forked over more than $8 million to help him explore his theory.
Solantic Walk-In Urgent Care Getting New Name
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Scott founded the chain of health care clinics in 2001, and sold it in 2011 amid cries of conflicting interests. The company announced yesterday that it will be changing its name to CareSpot Express Healthcare to, as a release states, "represent improvements the company is making to deliver a more convenient and better healthcare experience."
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Worried as FDA Inches Closer to Approving Drug That Might Prevent HIV Transmission
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On the surface, it sounds like great news. But as The Pulp reported in January, some doctors have serious concerns that the pill is not as effective as it should be and could encourage people to engage in risky behaviors in the bedroom. Now, as approval inches closer, advocacy groups are sounding alarms and calling on the FDA to exercise some caution.
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