The idiot Marxist from
the global warming thread comes over here to try his luck at putting his foot in his mouth some more...
80% of the people in the Philippines have Tuberculosis which is a very serious illness spread by coughing. You will catch this. I did. You will then need 6 months of medicines and you will never be guaranteed to be cured. You can relapse later in life.
Incidence of Tuberculosis in Philippines is 322 per 100,000 or 0.3% according to the World Bank.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.TBS.INCD?name_desc=trueThose are active symptomatic TB disease admitted to a hospital for treatment
on an annual basis.
It appears to be difficult to get the LTBI rate online, probably because the government does not warn to alarm you idiots about how bad the problem really is. But the doctors have all told me the rate of LTBI is 70 - 80%.
The incidence of latent TB infection is 70 - 80%. Here is one resource that documents the infection rate is 8 to 12 times higher than the smear positive incidence rate:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18235886Even amongst healthcare workers in the Philippines the LTBI (latent TB) rate was measured at 27%:
http://www.ejbronchology.eg.net/article.asp?issn=1687-8426;year=2015;volume=9;issue=2;spage=183;epage=187;aulast=AbdelghaffarThe following resource says 2.33 billion people have LTBI:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024230/Here is a 46% LTBI incidence in a village in China:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4440671/And healthy people usually don't get tuberculosis from coughing. If that was the case, then the American authorities might have put up a health warning on the travel advisories.
STFU idiot:
When people with TB in their lungs or throat cough, laugh, sneeze, sing, or even talk, the germs that cause TB may be spread into the air. If another person breathes in these germs there is a chance that they will become infected.