-Caveat Lector- From http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2001/0405/breaking6.htm }}>Begin Britain confirms more TB cases in Leicester British Public health officials said today they were searching for the source of the largest outbreak of tuberculosis in the country for 20 years. Doctors confirmed three new cases today of a virulent strain of TB centring around a school in Leicester after health officials extended a screening programme to find out how far the disease had spread. "This is a major outbreak. We are dealing with a particularly virulent strain ... which needs minimal exposure to infect," said Mr Philip Monk, consultant in communicable diseases at Leicestershire Health Authority. More than 700 students and teachers at Crown Hills Community College in Leicester have been screened for the disease. Leicestershire Health Authority said 25 children and one teacher had contracted TB, while another 60 students were found to have possibly been infected. Yesterday the authority reported 24 confirmed cases but said today one of these had been counted twice. A Department of Health spokesman said health officials were now testing friends and family of those diagnosed with the disease, along with the rest of the children at the school. The health authority said there would a meeting of national experts from the Communicable Diseases Surveillance Centre and the Public Health Laboratory Service on April 10 to decide whether the screening programme should be extended even further. Tuberculosis affects the lungs and is spread by coughing, sneezing or spitting. The disease can be fatal in small children but is usually treatable with antibiotics in adults. The British government recently announced it would resume the routine immunisation of schoolchildren against TB, which was halted in 1999 because manufacturing problems led to a shortage of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine. © The Irish Times/ireland.com End<{{ T' A<>E<>R Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the "democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded subjects. [[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard, Fox & Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
