Five babies test positive for TB in El Paso

EL PASO — The number of newborns exposed to tuberculosis at an El Paso hospital has grown to 850 after additional 45 children were identified for testing.

The El Paso Department of Public Health said Saturday that five of the infants have tested positive, but none has an "active" TB case.

The number of children who may require testing could grow, health officials acknowledged.

"I don't wish this on anybody," said Claudia Renteria after her five-month-old daughter was tested. "I hope to God everything turns out well."

The mother and baby are among dozens who arrived at a clinic run by the El Paso Department of Public Health.

All of the babies that must be tested were born at Providence Memorial Hospital, where officials announced a "healthcare worker" tested positive for tuberculosis on August 18.

Providence Memorial Hospital is not providing any information about the worker — including that person's occupation — citing privacy laws. Forty-three other hospital employees who worked with the infected person are also getting tested.

that ain't all that thats siftin through the rio,,,

had to work reeal late was listening to a fri rebroadcast,,

their sayin there's "big possibility" that the coyotes and

others might be passing along loose buckets of sunshine..

they are showing up in hospitals pegging the meters...


on a lighter note... did big tex get a new wardrobe?

not good,not good at all!

It's probably the drug resistive strain too.

Yes, Big Tex got a complete make over after the liberals set fire to him.

just the thought of driving way

down there to see ol tex make me

start sounding

like Lurch...

wonder if they still are clipping the rubes

at those empty lots that used to be there.

and then their cars wind up in the pound!!!

when Abigail came here from the phillipines, she tested positive for TB also..
my mom had TB when she was pregnant with me as well... hmm

Thank a liberal. Their loose laws allow untested pregnant illegals give birth in border town hospitals.

I'll make another prediction.

Gonna see lots of cases of polio.

and Distemper.

.. do you think you could re post the fluoride post with the memes that stuff was good..

is polio an epidemic south of the border?

by the way I wont take the flue shots never have... everyone around me gets sick after their shot...and they are younger than me... much younger

then have to stay away from them

I would but, been in Mexico the whole weekend. Phone don't do copy/ paste. Won't get back stateside til near midnight.

May God speed ya through the checkpoint

I didn't know...


code 10-7 till manana.