Call it one price of globalism
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By Mike Swift
Mercury News
In a beautiful home filled with mementos of world travel, a 44-year-old Silicon Valley executive reluctantly picks up the telephone to tell several business contacts that he http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2107 infected them with tuberculosis.
In a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland, a new mother feels her life slipping away. She is losing her hearing, her feet are going numb and her face carries a rash from the toxic drugs being used to fight the drug-resistant bacteria in her lungs. Her body has dwindled to 87 pounds and she wonders: Would my husband and infant son be better off if I was dead?
In Helena, Mont., the state’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=966 strain – a case her state lacks the money and the medical resources to treat.Those three small snapshots are all part of a global tuberculosis epidemic that threatens the Bay Area – with its web of international connections – like few places in the nation.
Call it one price of globalism.
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