White South African Dudley Lee forces Pollsmoor Prison to clean up its TB-hotbed in lawsuit - Arrested and acquitted for the minor 'crime' of selling fake perfume, he contracted Tuberculosis when dumped in Pollsmoor Prison. Now, the former "prisoner" 's victory in a lawsuit forced South Africa this year to intensify its fight against tuberculosis, a disease that has breached jail cells, defied international borders, and grown increasingly drug-resistant...
-- Peter Wonacot for The Wall Street Journal --
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BACKGROUND: HISTORY OF TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS DURING APARTHEID AND THEREAFTER:
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Criticism of Wall Street Journal article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689204578573772856749456.html
By Adriana Stuijt. Retired ex-Sunday Times medical reporter.
WSJ journalist Wonacot mentions Nelson Mandela's incarceration in Pollmoor:
He 'forgets' to say that when Mandela was incarcerated there
the apartheid-government had a very effective TB-prevention programme.
Mandela was cured very quickly when he contracted it because this
TB-prevention programme was in place countrywide. TB-patients during
apartheid were treated in specialist TB-hospitals. Funded
by the Chamber of Mines and the Health Department together.
However after Mandela became the country's first black president, SA very
quickly moved from preventing TB very adequately before 1994 to spreading it
throughout Southern Africa by 2005.
http://www.doh.gov.za/docs/pr/2001/pr0709.html
During apartheid, the South African National Tuberculosis Association
reported that its caseload in its TB-hospitals countrywide, increased from 88,000
cases in 1985 to about 124,000 in 1990: but there also was a high-cure rate and
very low death-rate: with 6,000 people dying on average each year in the early 1990s.
In 1994, about 47,800 new cases were reported.
By 2011, the WHO reported that SA 'admitted to 250,000 new TB cases each year."
The ANC-regime 's anti-white propaganda now also claims that 'TB was
introduced in South Africa by settlers." However this is historically inaccurate:
the DNA record and the archeologicalrecords find evidence of TB in the ancient
peoples all over the world, including throughout southern Africa and Egypt.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20560402
After 1994, when migration patterns into South Africa became very much heavier
(as pres Thabo Mbeki switched control of the borders from the defence force:
with itswell-equipped medical units with infectious-control experts on call)
to far less well-equipped SA police which had no screening mechanisms for
infectious diseases in place.
http://dspace.cigilibrary.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/31289/1/paper52.pdf?1
Thus the pre-1994 border-control screening for TB and other infectious diseases
amongst foreign immigrants - which was routine for all foreign workers of all
races during apartheid - was completely dropped.And Mbeki's disastrous decision
continues under the Zuma-cabinet: another three TB-hospitals in Gauteng were closed
'to channel resources to where they are needed most':
They switched from prevention, to combating the symptoms.
And with Tuberculosis, it has been shown over the ages that prevention - including
removal of infected patients from society until they are no longer infectious - is still
better than having to combat a disease which is well-equipped to win its battle with
humanity over many eons.The Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development closed
down the Charles Hurwitz TB Hospital in Soweto, the Tshepong TB Hospital in
Pretoria and the East Rand TB Hospital in Ekurhuleni in October 2010:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201010070580.html
That's why South Africa's Tuberculos rate - and specifically the nearly incurable
extremely-multi-drug-resistant variety, has spread so rapidly throughout South Africa.
Not ONLY 'because of the spread of HIV-AIDS' in South Africa.
Which is another disaster one can place firmly at the door of Thabo Mbeki and his
disastrous health minister. But that's another story...
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2013/03/totally-untreatable-tuberculosis-in.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/201010070580.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20560402
http://www.doh.gov.za/docs/pr/2001/pr0709.html
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12993&page=9
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