TB WITH YOUR STARBUCKS COFFEE?

TB With Your Starbucks Coffee? Starbucks in San Diego Hiring Refugees With Very High Rates of Tuberculosis

By Geller Report Staff - on August 11, 2017

A Starbucks in El Cajon, California, located in San Diego County, held a hiring event for refugees specifically — but employers might want to take a look at this: Many of these refugees carry tuberculosis.

Are employers going to test them first for the highly contagious disease?

The left likes to open doors and embrace refugees from all walks of life. But doing so can often bring in disease and illness — like tuberculosis.

Either way, coffee drinkers: Beware. Making that cup of Joe at home could prove a life-saver.

Breitbart has the story (h/t Refugee Resettlement Watch)

Starbucks held a hiring event exclusively for refugees in El Cajon, California on Tuesday, part of its recently announced commitment to hire more than 10,000 refugees over the next five years.

El Cajon is located in San Diego County, where more than 20,000 refugees have have been resettled by the federal government in the past nine and a half years since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2008.

A 2013 study from a research team led by Dr. Timothy Rodwell, “an associate professor and physician in the Division of Global Health at UCSD [University of California at San Diego]” that “analyzed data from LTBI [latent tuberculosis infection] screening results of 4,280 refugees resettled in San Diego County between January 2010 and October 2012,” noted that “San Diego County, in California, is a leading refugee resettlement site, and it also has one of the highest rates of active TB in the country, with an incidence rate of 8.4 cases per 100 000 people in 2011.”

In other words, the incidence of active TB among the 4,280 refugees who were resettled in San Diego County between January 2010 and October 2012 was 327 per 100,000, more than 100 times greater than the incidence of active TB among the entire population of the United States in 2016.

Wow! I didn’t know this next bit! Refugee contractors*** repeatedly tell the public that only those with latent TB are admitted to the US, but even if that is all we are admitting, that is still a risk for public health.

About four percent of the entire population of the United States tests positive for latent TB infection. Around 10 percent of those with LTBI will develop active TB at some point in their lives. The triggering mechanism to activate latent TB is not entirely understood, but high levels of stress, crowded living situations, poor public health practices, the presence of other diseases that lower the immune system, and behavioral conduct–such as smoking–appear to increase the chances of activation.

The 21.4 percent of refugees in the San Diego County study who tested positive for latent TB infection is about five times the national average.

Breitbart News contacted Starbucks to learn if their refugee hiring process will include mandatory testing for latent and active TB, but has not received a response.

Of course not! …

For those who ask me all the time—what can I do? Write to the White House and tell the Prez to tighten up admission requirements for migrants with communicable diseases. If terrorism doesn’t scare you, TB might!---http://pamelageller.com/2017/08/tb-starbucks-coffee-starbucks-san-diego-hiring-refugees-high-rates-tuberculosis.html/