Workers at Mulberry handbag factory in Somerset screened for TB

[Poorbuthappy]

Why is it only a headline because they work producing expensive baggage? Screening for TB amongst workers who have worked in the cotton industry has been going on for years. Nothing new. Workers go home to which ever foreign country was their homeland and come back and discover they have TB, result = fellow workers screened.

Can't make up my mind if we need the publicity to make people realise this disease needs dealing with, or if it will just be used to put people off eating beef/ dairy products.
Hopefully the former

 

[llamedos]

Can't make up my mind if we need the publicity to make people realise this disease needs dealing with, or if it will just be used to put people off eating beef/ dairy products.
Hopefully the former

Sorry to be blunt, but what is anyone expected to do about Human TB from countries where it is endemic, shoot them too? As said it is nothing new, as long as we have had workers coming into this country from those areas we have had tests through fellow workers, why only a headline for mulberry? Go to any of the surviving cotton factories and ask their workers how many times they have been screened for TB, and over how many years.

 

[matthew]

Can't make up my mind if we need the publicity to make people realise this disease needs dealing with, or if it will just be used to put people off eating beef/ dairy products.
Hopefully the former

The vegans have an agenda, which they will use to good effect.
But this bacterium has been allowed to establish in our wildlife to such an extent now, that it presents a different and very real danger to us all, via pets and companion mammals. And that risk is still unrecognised by most.
The 'meat and milk' card is played by gov'ment via its unions to avoid the real issue time after time.

Many countries require TB screens prior to entry: it's only daft countries like us who welcome all and sundry - and their bugs, bush meat and trappings - with little or no meaningful screening.

 

[Woolgatherer]

Add to all this the probability of resistance to antibiotics and we could end up back as we were in the 18th/19th century when a lot of people died of "consumption". Scary thought and quite depressing.

 

[gone up the hill]

Can't make up my mind if we need the publicity to make people realise this disease needs dealing with, or if it will just be used to put people off eating beef/ dairy products.
Hopefully the former

Think BSE all over again!!! what is going to happen sooner or later is thus: will be a massive outbreak of TB in the people who have moved into the country and live like rats in a sewer ( ie 25 + people in a 2 bed house for example ) papers will cotton on to the fact the government is making millions of ££ each year by selling meat from reactor animals into the food chain and the papers will add 2+ 2 together and make 5 and blame it on the meat... next think the meat price will crash and hey presto the government of the day ( finally ) will be forced to act!!!