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LANTANA, Fla. (Dec. 27) - It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.

Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., Juarez felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood.

I'm dying, he told himself, "because when you cough blood, it's something really bad."

It was really bad, and not just for him.

Doctors say Juarez's incessant hack was a sign of what they have both dreaded and expected for years - this country's first case of a contagious, aggressive, especially drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. The Associated Press learned of his case, which until now has not been made public, as part of a six-month look at the soaring global challenge of drug resistance.

Lynne Sladky, AP

Oswaldo Juarez, who needs two years of treatment for a potent form of tuberculosis, is at a quarantine hospital in Florida. "You feel like you're killing somebody, like you could kill a lot of people," the Peruvian said of the diagnosis. "That was the worst part."

Juarez's strain - so-called extremely drug-resistant (XXDR) TB - has never before been seen in the U.S., according to Dr. David Ashkin, one of the nation's leading experts on tuberculosis. XXDR tuberculosis is so rare that only a handful of other people in the world are thought to have had it.

"He is really the future," Ashkin said. "This is the new class that people are not really talking too much about. These are the ones we really fear because I'm not sure how we treat them."

Forty years ago, the world thought it had conquered TB and any number of other diseases through the new wonder drugs: Antibiotics. U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart announced it was "time to close the book on infectious diseases and declare the war against pestilence won."

Today, all the leading killer infectious diseases on the planet - TB, malaria and HIV among them - are mutating at an alarming rate, hitchhiking their way in and out of countries. The reason: Overuse and misuse of the very drugs that were supposed to save us.

Just as the drugs were a manmade solution to dangerous illness, the problem with them is also manmade. It is fueled worldwide by everything from counterfeit drugmakers to the unintended consequences of giving drugs to the poor without properly monitoring their treatment. Here's what the AP found:

- In Cambodia, scientists have confirmed the emergence of a new drug-resistant form of malaria, threatening the only treatment left to fight a disease that already kills 1 million people a year.

- In Africa, new and harder to treat strains of HIV are being detected in about 5 percent of new patients. HIV drug resistance rates have shot up to as high as 30 percent worldwide.

York clinic in the early '90s. "We are all connected by the air we br- In the U.S., drug-resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people last year - more than prostate and breast cancer combined. More than 19,000 people died from a staph infection alone that has been eliminated in Norway, where antibiotics are stringently limited.

"Drug resistance is starting to be a very big problem. In the past, people stopped worrying about TB and it came roaring back. We need to make sure that doesn't happen again," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was himself infected with tuberculosis while caring for drug-resistant patients at a New eathe, and that is why this must be everyone's problem."

This April, the World Health Organization sounded alarms by holding its first drug-resistant TB conference in Beijing. The message was clear - the disease has already spread to all continents and is increasing rapidly. Even worse, WHO estimates only 1 percent of resistant patients received appropriate treatment last year.

"We have seen a huge upburst in resistance," said CDC epidemiologist Dr. Laurie Hicks

Juarez' strain of TB puzzled doctors. He had never had TB before. Where did he pick it up? Had he passed it on? And could they stop it before it killed him?

At first, mainstream doctors tried to treat him. But the disease had already gnawed a golf-ball-sized hole into his right lung.

TB germs can float in the air for hours, especially in tight places with little sunlight or fresh air. So every time Juarez coughed, sneezed, laughed or talked, he could spread the deadly germs to others.

"You feel like you're killing somebody, like you could kill a lot of people. That was the worst part," he said.

Tuberculosis is the top single infectious killer of adults worldwide, and it lies dormant in one in three people, according to WHO. Of those, 10 percent will develop active TB, and about 2 million people a year will die from it.

Simple TB is simple to treat - as cheap as a $10 course of medication for six to nine months. But if treatment is stopped short, the bacteria fight back and mutate into a tougher strain. It can cost $100,000 a year or more to cure drug-resistant TB, which is described as multi-drug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and XXDR.

There are now about 500,000 cases of MDR tuberculosis a year worldwide. XDR tuberculosis killed 52 of the first 53 people diagnosed with it in South Africa three years ago.

Drug-resistant TB is a "time bomb," said Dr. Masae Kawamura, who heads the Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center in San Francisco, "a manmade problem that is costly, deadly, debilitating, and the biggest threat to our current TB control strategies."

Juarez underwent three months of futile treatment in a Fort Lauderdale hospital. Then in December 2007 he was sent to A.G. Holley State Hospital, a 60-year-old massive building of brown concrete surrounded by a chain-link fence, just south of West Palm Beach.

"They told me my treatment was going to be two years, and I have only one chance at life," Juarez said. "They told me if I went to Peru, I'm probably going to live one month and then I'm going to die."

Holley is the nation's last-standing TB sanitarium, a quarantine hospital that is now managing new and virulent forms of the disease.

Tuberculosis has been detected in the spine of a 4,400-year-old Egyptian mummy. In the 1600s, it was known as the great white plague because it turned patients pale. In later centuries, as it ate through bodies, they called it "consumption." By 1850, an estimated 25 percent of Europeans and Americans were dying of tuberculosis, often in isolated sanatoriums like Holley where they were sent for rest and nutrition.

Then in 1944 a critically ill TB patient was given a new miracle antibiotic and immediately recovered. New drugs quickly followed. They worked so well that by the 1970s in the U.S., it was assumed the disease was a problem of the past.. And patients cut their treatment short when they felt better, or even shared pills with other family members.

There are two ways to get drug resistant TB. Most cases

Once public health officials decided TB was gone, the disease was increasingly missed or misdiagnosed. And without public funding, it made a comeback among the poor. Then immigration and travel flourished, breaking down invisible walls that had contained TB.

Drug resistance emerged worldwide. Doctors treated TB with the wrong drug combinations. Clinics ran out of drug stocks developed from taking medication inappropriately. But it can also be transmitted like simple TB, a cough or a sneeze. But more than likely it will be given to you by a caring government, who want you dead.

A.G. Holley In the 1980s, HIV and AIDS brought an even bigger resurgence of TB cases. TB remains the biggest killer of HIV patients today.

For decades, drug makers failed to develop new medicines for TB because the profits weren't there. With the emergence of resistant TB, several private drug companies have started developing new treatments, but getting an entire regimen on the market could take 24 years. In the meantime, WHO estimates each victim will infect an average of 10 to 15 others was back in business.

Holley's corridors are long and dark, with fluorescent tubes throwing harsh white light on drab walls. One room is filled with hulking machines once used to collapse lungs, sometimes by inserting ping pong balls. Antique cabinets hold metal tools for spreading and removing ribs - all from a time when TB was rampant and the hospital's 500 beds were filled.

Only 50 beds are funded today, but those are mostly full. More than half the patients are court-ordered into treatment after refusing to take their meds on the outside.

Juarez came voluntarily. In the beginning, he was isolated and forced to wear a mask when he left his room. He could touch his Peruvian family only in pictures taped to the wall. He missed his dad, his siblings, his dog, his parrot, and especially his mother.

"I was very depressed," he said. "I had all this stuff in my mind."

He spent countless hours alone inside the sterile corner room reserved for patients on extended stays - dubbed "the penthouse" because it is bigger and lined by a wall of windows.

His moods ran hot and cold. He punched holes in the walls out of frustration, played loud reggaeton music with a thumping beat and got into fights with other patients. He covered his door's small window with a drawing of an evil clown to keep nurses from peering inside. He made friends with new patients, but was forced to stay long after many of them came, got cured, and left.

Early on, Juarez's treatment was similar to chemotherapy. Drugs were pumped into his bloodstream intravenously three times a day, and he choked down another 30 pills, including some that turned his skin a dark shade of brown. He swallowed them with spoonfuls of applesauce, yogurt, sherbet and chocolate pudding, but once they hit his stomach, waves of nausea sometimes sent him heaving. He would then have to force them all down again.

Lynne Sladky, AP

Dr. David Ashkin points to an X-Ray of patient Oswaldo Juarez's chest. "This is the new class that people are not really talking too much about," Ashkin said. "These are the ones we really fear because I'm not sure how we treat them."

"When he first came in we really had to throw everything and the kitchen sink at him," said Ashkin, the hospital's medical director, who experimented on Juarez with high doses of drugs, some not typically used for TB. "It was definitely cutting edge and definitely somewhat risky because it's not like I can go to the textbooks or ... journal articles to find out how to do this."

After 17 years of handling complex cases - including TB in the brain and spine - Ashkin had never seen a case so resistant. He believed he would have to remove part of Juarez's lung.

Ashkin dialed Peru to talk to the young man's father.

It's a rare disease, said Ashkin, hard to define. Your son is one of two people in the world known to have had this strain, he said.

"What happened to the other person?" his father asked.

"He died."

Juarez's adventure in the U.S. had turned into a medical nightmare.

About 60 million people visit the U.S. every year, and most are not screened for TB before arrival. Only refugees and those coming as immigrants are checked. The top category of multidrug-resistant patients in the U.S. - 82 percent of the cases identified in 2007 - was foreign-born patients, according to the CDC.

The results are startling among those tested, said Dr. Angel Contreras, who screens Dominicans seeking to enter the U.S. on immigrant visas. The high rate of MDR-TB in the Dominican Republic coupled with high HIV rates in neighboring Haiti are a health crisis in the making, he said.

"They're perfect ingredients for a disaster," he said.

Juarez's homeland, Peru, is also a hotspot for multidrug-resistant TB. DNA fingerprinting linked his disease to similar strains found there and in China, but none with the same level of resistance.

"So the question is: Is this a strain that's evolving? That's mutating? That's becoming more and more resistant?" asked Ashkin. "I think the answer is yes."

Doctors grappling with these new strains inadvertently give the wrong medicines, and so the TB mutates to become more aggressive and resistant.

Poor countries also do not have the resources to determine whether a patient's TB is drug-resistant. That requires sputum culturing and drug-susceptibility testing - timely, expensive processes that must be performed in capable labs. WHO is working to make these methods more available in high-risk countries as well as negotiating cheaper prices for second-line drugs.

"There's a lot of MDR and XDR-TB that hasn't been diagnosed in places like South Africa and Peru, Russia, Estonia, Latvia," said Dr. Megan Murray, a tuberculosis expert at Harvard. "We think it's a big public health threat."

Experts argue if wealthy countries do not help the worst-hit places develop comprehensive TB programs, it puts everyone at risk.

"You're really looking at a global issue,'" said Dr. Lee Reichman, a TB expert at the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute. "It's not a foreign problem, you can't keep these TB patients out. It's time people realize that."

Juarez spent a year and a half living alone in a room plastered with bikini-clad blondes, baseball caps and a poster of Mt. Everest for inspiration. There were days when he simply shut down and refused his meds until his family convinced him to keep fighting.

"I was thinking that maybe if I need to die, then that's what I need to do," he said, perched on his bed in baggy jeans. "I felt like: 'I'm never going to get better. I'm never going to get out of here.'"

When put side by side, his CAT scans from before and after treatment are hard to believe. The dark hole is gone, and only a small white scar tattoos his lung.

"They told me the TB is gone, but I know that TB, it doesn't have a cure. It only has a treatment like HIV," he said, his English now fluent and his body weight up 32 pounds from when he first arrived. "The TB can come back. I saw people who came back to the hospital twice and some of them died. So, it's very scary."

His treatment cost Florida taxpayers an estimated $500,000, a price tag medical director Ashkin says seems like an astronomical amount to spend on someone who's not an American citizen. But he questions how the world can afford not to treat Juarez and others sick with similar lethal strains.

"This is an airborne spread disease ... so when we treat that individual, we're actually treating and protecting all of us," he said. "This is true homeland security."

In July, at age 21 - 19 months after checking in - Juarez swallowed his last pills, packed a few small suitcases and wheeled them down the hospital's long corridor.

The last time doctors saw him, he was walking out of the sanitarium into south Florida's soupy heat.

Martha Mendoza is an AP national writer based in Mexico City. Margie Mason is an AP medical writer who worked on this project as a 2009 Nieman Global Health Fellow with The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.

26/12/09

Man charged with attack on US jet
A Nigerian is charged with attempting to destroy a passenger jet arriving in the US by detonating a bomb on board. BOLLOCKS! It was a firework.

Couldn't resist one last comment on the latest "False Flag" from our caring, elite Illuminati scum.

Remember the last lunatic they used to build up the 'fear factor' with a suposed bomb in his shoe, who had trouble lighting a match to set it off? Now we have this 23 year old Nigerian lighting a firecracker (banger) taped to his leg, and burning himself.

If you check these individuals mental history, you will find they have both been under therapy and brain washed into performing these 'make believe' terror attacks. (A supportive therapy is one that does not treat or improve the underlying condition, but instead increases the patient's comfort. Supportive treatment may be palliative care.)

Their blood streams will have been overflowing with Prozac and other mind numbing chemicals.

Let's imagine ourselves as a 'would be' terrorist. We have managed to smuggle explosive onto an aircraft. Would we fumble with matches, in full view of the other passengers, or would we lock ourselves in the toilet and make sure we succeeded in our task?

I know what a true terrorist would do! And so do you.

Don't let them continue to scare you shitless and take away more of your liberties.

9/11 was an inside job! So was Waco, Oklahoma, London bus and train bombings, Al Gore's global warming, swine flu pandemic and a host of other "make the public shit their pants and give in to the freedom sapping and tyrannical New World Order" events.

Here's an idea for a New Years resolution for all. "DESTROY THE EVIL NEW WORLD ORDER!"

Please be aware you are being manipulated by satanists and question everything they do.

My fight for justice starts in earnest Jan 1st 2010. I have files and video's full of fiddles by bailiffs, solicitors, courts, Mansfield Magistrate's in particular, (I have a recording of a court official and husher, at Mansfield Magistrates Courts, trying to bribe me to keep my mouth shut, this was after my fifth false arrest. I will open with a transcipt of this recording 1/1/2010) police, judges and the judiciary.

It's a shame I have to spend my last days on earth fighting rogue government, but we all should have fought them years ago, and we wouldn't be in the position we are today.

Factual ITV

Dear All,

As Colin Peters said in his email below: “we all know how the judiciary can twist and manipulate and even ignore evidence to arrive at the decisions that they want to arrive at.”

For the incontrovertible evidence that backs up Mr Peters statement, please peruse the following links for the facts: -

Report by Phillip Inman of The Guardian, Financial Section, Monday 25 August 2008

I recommend that you download and listen to the following taped meeting: -

David Emslie’s taped meeting with Alex Salmond MSP MP, in September 2009

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Best wishes to all,

Patrick Cullinane.

With all due respect to yourself Peter, we all know how the judiciary can twist and manipulate and even ignore evidence to arrive at the decisions that they want to arrive at.

Also, in court, they have the advantage of having the last word which precludes you from saying, "Just a minute. You,ve got that wrong!!!"

Instead, you have the whole rigmarole of having to go through the Appeal procedure and then, if granted an appeal, you have to appear before judges whose only concern is to cover up the wrong, or even downright bad decisions of their brother judge/s.

Please don't tell me that I am wrong because like so many others, I have experienced it first hand.

My Regards to judicial victim everywhere.

Colin Peters

More Al Gore type's shite! Himalayan glaciers melting deadline 'a mistake'

Further to our telephone conversation this morning, I am forwarding you the attached documents re my case, which are self-explanatory and needs addressing at a very high level, as the blockers of justice are at a high level: -

Is this how Jack Straw is dealing with legitimate complaints from your constituents also? Therefore, in the public interest and the common good, I respectfully request that you fully investigate this perversion of justice by Jack Straw and take it up with the appropriate authorities.

If Jack Straw isn’t working for justice and the interests for the British People; then who exactly is this man working for? -

Your interview with Alex Jones was brought to my attention by a colleague and after viewing it, I decided to contact you as you are clearly fighting on the side of the peoples, and my case is fully documented. But still no Justice having been robbed of my home and possessions on 30 March 1999.

The Alex Jones Show L I V E (with Godfrey Bloom MEP) - December 28th 2009 - Part 5 of 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZCBgX6l204&feature=related

you will understand how I felt when I saw the above YouTube Video; when I had overpaid my income tax. And look what happened to me?I look forward to hearing from you when you have perused the attached documents.

I am fully aware that I am NOT your constituent, but you can use my case as an example to protect your own constituents. Can you not?

Please keep up the good work: - to expose and repel Police State Britain

Yours sincerely,

Patrick Cullinane.

PS. Why have the British Police failed to bring the perpetrators’ of these serious crimes against me to justice? -

MICHAEL WALSH NEWS DESK - 30 NOVEMBER 2000

OFFICIAL: BRITAIN IS NOW A POLICE STATE

A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF BRITAIN’S CORRUPT POLICE SERVICE

http://www.ety.com/HRP/walshcomments/policeindictment.htm

Police State Britain Friday, 21 August 2009

Dear Sir/Madam

PlePlease note that your debt of £1975.00 remains unpaid. It was proved at Tameside Magistrates Courts, I didn't owe this toe rag a penny....He owed me.

I mI must warn you that if payment of your debt is not made within 7 days I will arrange for your case to be placed in the hands of our Solicitors who will commence action in the High Court which may culminate in a Bankruptcy Order being made against you.

As a bankrupt your bank accounts will be frozen, and your personal and business assets will be realised for the benefit of all creditors.

In addition you will be responsible for all legal costs incurred in taking this action There will be no further warning.

YoYours faithfully

Your Freedom Is Long Gone! Edmond de Rothschild and Maurice StrongIF YOU DON'T START SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH. YOU'LL HAVE TO LIVE THE LIE! 1984 (Big Brother Is Watching You!) and Brave New World were not fiction.

David Kelly We explore the questions remaining following the death of the weapons inspector. David Kelly preview Kelly death not suicide, says MP Q&A: What really happened Timeline: David Kelly A pair of WANKERS

9/11 Across the US we investigate the growing number of 9/11 conspiracy theories. 9/11 preview The 9/11 conspiracy movement Q&A: What really happened Timeline: 9/11 Tests 'prove' Diana driver drunk Public doubts over Diana accident Q&A: What really happened

Hmm...isn't the heart a muscle?

Statin Drugs Actually Increase Heart Disease Brian Phillips Posted 04/01/2010

Edith Sewell Posted 14/06/2009

PS. Report by Phillip Inman of The Guardian, Jobs & Money, Saturday May 10, 2003:

This man was right all along

I wish you all a Justice filled New Year – 2010. WE are going to make 2010 OUR Year. As the song says, “Ain't No Stopping Us Now” - I hope someday you’ll join us: - that is if you haven’t already!!!

Patrick Cullinane.

PS. Don’t forget: - an ounce of action is worth a ton of theory!! - And don’t miss the substance by grasping at the shadow!! More utter "BULLSHIT" from FBI, Al-CIA-da (CIA), M15, M16 and MOSSAD

Suspected Nigerian plane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told FBI investigators that he was trained in Yemen, where the CIA is running a "covert front" against al-Qaeda, according to the New York Times.

The sensational confession was made by the chief executive of Tele-Traffic, which supplies cameras to virtually every police force in Britain.

Case of Fearsome TB Strain

Tonight Monday, 6 April 2009, 8:00PM - 8:30PM Episode: 25 Tonight home page. Suprise, supise the video has been pulled.

Russell Jones & Walker 80-86 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8NH Tel 020 7837 2808 Fax 020 7837 2941 DX 403 Lon/Ch'ry Ln Direct Tel 020 7837 2808 Direct Fax 020 7447 8347

Our Ref: CEC/CL/600409.1

Your Ref: VRN 589 0216 21 24 January 2007

Dear Sirs

RE: Glyn Geoffrey Ellis (AKA Wayne Fontana)

Thank you for your letters dated 19 January 2007 and 23 January 2007 in respect of the above matter.

We are concerned with your classification of this matter as merely a ‘complaint’ as defined in your letter dated 19 January 2007 and set out by way of clarification, the basis upon which we have corresponded with the Civil Recovery Unit on behalf of our client:

Russell Jones & Walker

Cc Karim Manji HM Revenue & Customs Solicitors Office T119 East Wing Somerset House The Strand London WC2R 1LB

I don't care if you're Black, White, Pink with polka dots. If you continue to do me and my family wrong, you will pay! If not immediately. Eventually, to "Mother Nature" and your "God".

Hundreds Demanding Globalist Agenda Arrested at Copenhagen

.....Gore cancels on Copenhagen lecture – leaves ticketholders in a lurch It seems the uncertainty about Copenhagen is growing. When Al baby pulls the plug, you know it’s hosed. From Berlingske: Al Gore cancels lecture during COP15

Politicians Judges, Courts, Police and the Authorities are all ladies front bottoms. Sorry! That's publically incorrect. THEY ARE CUNTS!

“California’s Real Death Panels”–Data Reveals California’s Private Insurers Deny 21% of Claims

As Colin Peters said in his email below: “we all know how the judiciary
can twist and manipulate and even ignore evidence to arrive at the
decisions that they want to arrive at.”

For the incontrovertible evidence that backs up Mr Peters statement, please peruse the
following links for the facts: -

Report by Phillip Inman of The Guardian, Financial Section, Monday 25
August 2008

More Al Gore type's shite!
Himalayan glaciers melting deadline 'a mistake'

In addition you will be responsible for all legal costs incurred in taking this action

There will be no further warning.

David Kelly

We explore the questions remaining following the death of the weapons inspector.

David Kelly preview

Kelly death not suicide, says MP

Q&A: What really happened

Timeline: David Kelly

A pair of WANKERS

9/11

Across the US we investigate the growing number of 9/11 conspiracy theories.

9/11 preview

The 9/11 conspiracy movement

Q&A: What really happened

Timeline: 9/11

Tests 'prove' Diana driver drunk

Public doubts over Diana accident

Q&A: What really happened

Statin Drugs Actually Increase Heart Disease
Brian Phillips Posted 04/01/2010

PS. Don’t forget: - an ounce of action is worth a ton of theory!! - And don’t miss the substance by grasping at the shadow!!

More utter "BULLSHIT" from FBI, Al-CIA-da (CIA), M15, M16 and MOSSAD

Tonight Monday, 6 April 2009, 8:00PM - 8:30PM
Episode: 25 Tonight home page. Suprise, supise the video has been pulled.

Russell Jones & Walker
80-86 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8NH
Tel 020 7837 2808 Fax 020 7837 2941 DX 403 Lon/Ch'ry Ln
Direct Tel 020 7837 2808 Direct Fax 020 7447 8347

Your Ref: VRN 589 0216 21
24 January 2007

Cc Karim Manji
HM Revenue & Customs Solicitors Office
T119 East Wing
Somerset House
The Strand
London
WC2R 1LB