Hundreds Of Babies At Risk In TB Scare

S.F. Hospital Informs 960 Mothers That Former Postpartum Unit Employee Was Infected

(AP)  Kaiser Permanente is telling 960 mothers that they and their babies may have been exposed to a San Francisco maternity ward worker diagnosed with active tuberculosis.

Kaiser announced it had started notifying patients Tuesday about the worker formerly employed in the postpartum unit of its San Francisco Medical Center.

The part-time employee worked at Kaiser from March 10 to August 10 and no longer works for the organization.

Kaiser learned of the employee's diagnosis last week and said the medical center followed all appropriate screening procedures when hiring the employee.

"We feel that this is a low-risk exposure, but we want to be aggressive about identifying any potential contacts," Dr. Stephen Parodi, chief of infectious diseases for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Dr. Parodi said the infection risk for patients was low and that the worker had a common strain of TB that responds well to antibiotics.


For more information visit the Web site of Kaiser Permanente, or call Kaiser at [phone].

[libsluv2spit]

MY GOD! what a tragic situation. I hope that this is just running on paranoia and the babies are okay.

[Meg003]

First, there is no immunization for Tb, only treatment.

Second, if all of your/our children are immunized then, supposedly, the immigrants kids pose no health threat to immunized kids. Therefore, the only risks would be to alien kids, not American kids.

Posted by docpeter

Certainly tb is a major threat, and you are right, there is no vaccination. But U.S. citizens must show immunization records which contain proof of tb testing and follow-up reading. While the tb test is not a vaccination, one form is used to record the immunizations and the tb test.

Few vaccinations are 100% effective, and some children cannot take vaccinations. So we are all at risk from these exemptions given to alien invaders'' children.

[jdubs63]

BlameGovt and deacon20081... your comments STINK and rude to say the least!!!

[docpeter-2009]

The federal government requires public schools to allow children of aliens to attend school without the immunization records that the children of U.S. citizens must have. Everyone is at risk because of this. I don''''t see what is so special about this one group of babies. All of our public school children are being exposed, as are their teachers.

Posted by Meg001 at 08:57 PM : Aug 27, 2008
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First, there is no immunization for Tb, only treatment.

Second, if all of your/our children are immunized then, supposedly, the immigrants kids pose no health threat to immunized kids. Therefore, the only risks would be to alien kids, not American kids.

[Meg003]

The federal government requires public schools to allow children of aliens to attend school without the immunization records that the children of U.S. citizens must have. Everyone is at risk because of this. I don''t see what is so special about this one group of babies. All of our public school children are being exposed, as are their teachers.

[haoli25]

Thanks for answering!

Posted by erasmus81


My pleasure.

[erasmus81]

"I thought it was pick your favorite letter time and I chose ''''O''''."

Haha.
Thanks for answering!

[haoli25]

Why does "what''''s his face" keep posting just a "t" or whatever? On one article he did that 5 times. I counted! Usually it''''s a "t", but there was an "a" once. hahaha (i can''''t stop laughing) And then there was your "o".:) His name starts with a "P". I don''''t want to hurt his feelings by naming him. You know who I mean, right?

Like what do you think his problem is?
Posted by erasmus81


Yes, I know who you are talking about. And NO, I don''t know either. I thought it was pick your favorite letter time and I chose ''O''. lol

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[pollroller1]

If they contact the disease, that just means they were sinner babies.

Posted by gop_forever at 02:05 PM : Aug 27, 2008
Steve Colbert would be proud. LOL

[erasmus81]

I thought maybe he was trying to spell something, but he wasn''t.:)