Poor Hygiene Reaches Critical Mass: Occupy Atlanta Base Tests Positive for Tuberculosis
- Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:53pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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By now it is well known that health and hygiene issues for the Occupy movement and their respective encampments abound. But TB? Yes. The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis and an outbreak could be on the rise.
CBS reports:
The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
“Over the last three months were have been two persons who have resided in this facility who have been diagnosed with confirmed or suspected infectious tuberculosis (TB),” said Fulton County Services Director Matthew McKenna in a written statement to CBS Atlanta. “One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition. All person(s) identified as positive have begun treatment and are being monitored to ensure that medication is taken as directed.”
CBS adds that news of the tuberculosis threat could force Atlanta Occupiers to move camp again, which is perhaps not the best way of containing the disease, given how easily it spreads.
Meanwhile, Occupy Atlanta protester Tim Franzen is denying that TB rmight force the group to move its encampment.
“They [the health department] have no data on an outbreak.” Franzen told Redding News Review’s radio show.
“They have two cases that have been confirmed, but they have both come out of the Fulton County Jail, which is where people get TB.”
According to Redding News, Franzen said that he and the other occupiers have no problem spending the night at their home base atop the homeless shelter.
Will something as serious as a TB outbreak give the Occupiers pause to reconsider their detrimental personal hygiene habits? If the recent trend of public defecation and urination combined with close living quarters is any indication, sadly it might not.




















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jessieH
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:22pmGOD works in mysterious ways.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:26pmLeave them alone and the problem will fix itself.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:30pmIndeed.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:40pmCan we install fences at least????
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:44pmThe conspiracy schmucks will soon say the disease was introduced to the occupy crowd by those that oppose them.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:44pmThe people of Atlanta should place signs around their campgrounds..”Caution! Keep back 100ft! Infected Occupiers!”
Report Post »LadyLibertea
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:45pmJust as long as they don’t cough in your face…eewwww.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:54pmBob Beckle has been coughing an awful lot lately on the 5….hmmmm
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:12pmMy thoughts exactly, followed by “you reap what you sow”
Report Post »cwrink
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:25pmYou are so right. God does work in mysterious ways unknown to mankind.
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:32pmPoobaggers.
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:07pmI wonder how many tested positive for aids?……
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:30pmTB has been INCREASING in this country for SEVERAL years (due to illegals coming into the USA)
Report Post »Maybe RevySharpo and JesseLoveChildJackson can purify the occupiers…..GOOD LUCK with THAT.
nonofmybiznez
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:30pmThe Black Plague was spread by fleas and now drug resistent TB is spreading by fleabaggers. Seriously though, leave them to their own kind. They can destroy themselves.
Report Post »mils
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:38pmkarma..?? or is it stupidity?? hhmmmmm
Report Post »Bluzie
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:43pmTB? I would have put money on it that they would be passing along hepatitis first.
Report Post »clarity2199
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:49pmGood lord, what is wrong with these people? They’re getting diseases, and they don’t care? Even if I was stupid enough during my more wild teen days and decided, ‘Hey, looks like a party…I think I’ll jump in!’, I can’t imagine wanting to stay near anyone spreading diseases around. Of course, the first sign of people going to the bathroom on the ground, I probably would have left by that time.
Report Post »But, don’t anyone in this group consider getting away from this stuff? I mean not all of them can be die-hard revolutionaries…some probably jumped in just for the party. How can this be considered fun, now? I just don’t get it.
kryptonite
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:57pmAccording to the article, Fulton County Services Director Matthew McKenna stated that “[o]ne of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition.”
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There is no “single, standard medication” for the less virulent strains of active TB, let alone for drug-resistant or extremely drug-resistant strains. They can’t be left alone. All of these punks need to be tested for TB — and quarantined if they act stupidly and decide to move their Cr@p on America movement to another location.
kryptonite
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:07pm@CLARITY
Report Post »I mean not all of them can be die-hard revolutionaries…some probably jumped in just for the party. How can this be considered fun, now? I just don’t get it.
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The die-hard revolutionaries have been joined by mercenaries, degenerates, social misfits, druggies, pervs and Paulist useful idiots. Hope that answers your question.
SERUM
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:10pmThey need to be quarantined, tagged and water-boarded in Lysol!
Report Post »It’s the only way….
chazman
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:06pm… OBAMMY, the PUNK community organizer, is solely responsible for all of this … crap!
To our Secret Service Agents: I feel your shame …
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:56pmthey are getting it from the jail…
Report Post »“They have two cases that have been confirmed, but they have both come out of the Fulton County Jail, which is where people get TB.”
kryptonite
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:29pm@JB.KIBS
“They have two cases that have been confirmed, but they have both come out of the Fulton County Jail…”
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Who’d a thunk it? Please add “former prison inmates” to the list above.
@CHAZMAN
Report Post »… OBAMMY, the PUNK community organizer, is solely responsible for all of this … crap! To our Secret Service Agents: I feel your shame …
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+1
banjarmon
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:15amAmazing what GOD’s little bug can do!
Report Post »BJAlexandria
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 5:11amI love Vegasguy’s comment! POOBAGGERS!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 5:39amTime to cull the herd…all we need now is a few billion rats.
Too bad Obamacare is going away next year…they won’t be able to get their free bennies for life for something they clearly brought on themselves.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 10:11amThe CDC should give them the good and bad news
Report Post »Good news occupiers you can protest as long as you want
Bad news is you have the protest because this area is quarantined
‘as U.S. soldiers in hazmat suits starts erecting a fence around the area.
Cerealface
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:18pmI heard God also creates things he loves to hate, like GAYS.
Report Post »And hell is just tough love.
Chrono_Sleuth
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:03pmSome of your comments…wow. You would almost think some of us libertarians believe in genocide to “cull the masses” as the Fabien Society believes, as the UN was created to do, as many of our scientists have pushed us to believe is best for the world (despite the lack of evidence) though in more subtle ways like reduced birth rates or concepts like intelligent people have fewer children (which has some aspect of merit, thus is so widely and easily received).
Honestly, have any of you considered the repercussions once some of these people go back home, TB doesn’t kill so quickly anymore, we have far cleaner water and food. We eat less spoiled food as well, so our bodies tend to be in better shape for dealing with disease on a whole. This allows people to live longer under such horrible diseases as TB. Consider the wanderlust type of personalities amongst these groups, how many of them might go from one Occupy to another, how many might go back to their normal lives for a bit, either out of homesickness, or because food sources ran out, their items were stolen, tent stolen, etc.
Consider how bacteria shape and adapt overtime. Consider that the plague we called the Black Death was a brand new version of Plague, a new virulent strain that killed quickly, likely brought out by the unsanitary conditions of Europe at the time. Consider the conditions of these camps. That’s a breeding ground for who knows what, this is something to worry over for all of us…
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:27pmdon’t read too much into this…some blazers are getting carried away. the only part of this story that matters is that the occupiers are threatening to move their ‘encampment”. Atlanta!!! wake up!!! this should scare the hell out of you. “now we will infect another part of the city”…way to go OWS
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:21pmSuddenly I’m reminded of the ending of HG Wells “War of the Worlds”, when the aliens from Mars tried to Occupy Earth.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:37pmWhat does this say about the occupiers that they are dirtier than third worlders. Or that they would last 6 months in a third world country.
Report Post »gwssacredcause
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:20pmTo the communist and socialists these “useful idiots” are all expendable, sad.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:50pmYou said a mouthful. I can’t understand how anyone can have such a small personality as to openly allow others to direct their lives. I suppose it takes all kinds, but it seems an aweful waste of a life, seeing as we only get one here.
Here’s a question for you. Most women act as if you are asking them to murder someone when they realize that real camping doesn’t come with a toilet, yet the OWS women find that the nearest gutter serves their needs just fine…why is this?
Report Post »nonofmybiznez
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:27pm4X that is a great question. I prefer camping. Good food, good friends, nice fire, and don’t forget the marshmallows and beer.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 10:38amSmores!!!
Report Post »showmerancher
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:16pmThe CDC is headquartered in Atlanta. This is a serious situation with a serious and potentially deadly disease. It would seem that the CDC should be moving quickly to quarantine these folks before they begin infecting others in the area, on public transportation, etc.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:25pmHmm. Makes one think. Don’t it?
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:25pmLook at these crowds, does hygiene look like it on their agenda. Whats up with CDC, why are they not shutting this down?
Report Post »showmerancher
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:26pmThis should also be a warning to other mayors around the country that are contemplating dispersing their OWS protesters (i.e. Portland on Sunday morning), that perhaps ALL of those folks need to be tested so as not to cause a public health hazard by sending these folks back into the general population. Dispersing these folks only to find next week that what they’ve done is spread a drug-resistant disease, especially with this incident as a warning would seem to be ill-advised at a minimum, and perhaps criminal because there was a warning.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:29pmHeaven forgive me, when I read the headline, I had such a gut wrenching laugh, my kids came in to make sure I was ok. As for the idea of some type of quarantine,. I’m sure these most progressive and modern folks would only be to happy to acquiesces, it’s all for the greater good of the collective. Safer is better, don’t ya know.
Report Post »Unlike myself, ya know, kind of old fashioned and backwards, would be more likely to to harkin to something crazy like:
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
It’s a saying from some old white crazy dude, but it really sticks with me.
compliments of one mister Ben Franklin (-:
Maybe if they would have learned meaning of this phrase at sometime in their pathetic lives, they wouldn’t be caught up in such a stupid situation lovingly referred to as ows.
sundaisy91
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:46pmyou would think the CDC would be moving in but isn’t Ms. Sebelius the head of the CDC or Obama’s health czar or something-=maybe that‘s why they aren’t moving in…just a thought
Report Post »Red Max
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:16pmIt was just a matter of time before something like this would come to pass. The report did steal a bit of my thunder. Urinating and defecating so close to other people whom you don’t know. Eating and storing food prepared by people that have – I believe – no training by the local board of health. These people thought they were in a utopia; how fast reality sets in. I just hope they don’t spread whatever else they may have to the 53%.
Report Post »nolemming
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:52pm…the first thing they will spread to the 53% is the damn bills! Shame on us for going to work everyday, making an honest living, skipping trips to the doctor ourselves because of time or money constraints, all to pay for a bunch of numbnuts who would spit on us if we walked by. If this country tried to keep people in this condition the uproar would be deafening. I wonder how long it will be before it will be safe for children to play in these parks again, and how much will it cost the 53%?
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:14pmYeah, Cipro for everyone. Hit the bong, hit the cipro.
Report Post »eadamico70
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:52pmLOL!!! Ok, that was a good one! Maybe the CDC should be dispercing masks to these people, assuming they know what it’s for? Then again, they are the college elite.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:14pmDon’t like weed and junk cure that dude?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:28pmDude…don’t we have a committee for tuberculosis? Just keep the media away man. Can “up twinkles” fix this?
Report Post »Let’s think this one out….these are supposed college students…defecating, urinating, storing food, eating food, sleeping randomly with one another, allowing anyone off the street to share their facilities..ok..until their chefs get upset…in unsanitary conditions…and they didn’t expect a disease to start? I guess there’s no biologists or med students among them? Because everyone knows..that an A in “dialectics of hegemony” and a philosophy degree is what employers are looking for in an applicant.
Rogue
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:00pmI think ( I think)
Report Post »I have TB ( I have TB)
that dude over there (that dude over there)
was coughing all over my bong (was coughing all over my bong)
Stop repeating what I’m saying, bro! (stop repeating what I’m saying, bro!)
( )
neocon1
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:13pmPrayers answered, a plague upon the heathens.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:16pmYeah Baby!!
Report Post »Steel
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:11pmInitially, these protests were the home of some of the dregs of society. Now they are the breeding grounds for disease that threaten us all. And the democrats support these rat nests. How typical of the liberal left wing loons who inhabit the cesspool of DC! I guess they just want more illnesses so they can increase jobs for doctors.
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:10pmHA!! …Who says there isn’t a God??? …It would seem the heathen sinners are getting their just rewards without a shot being fired. LOVE IT!!!
Report Post »geonj
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:09pmwhen is the public good and safety going to be more important than these morons’ free speech. so now, instead of the elected city official responsiible for all of the people, the mayosr, shutting these camps down, they support this leftist agenda to the detriment of all people.
Report Post »showmerancher
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:07pmWOW! This REALLY presents a problem. Do we still want their encampments dispersed back into the general population?
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:13pmNOPE!! ….Put them into quarantine camps to isolate them from contaminating the rest of us!!! Kind of like leper colonies!!! They’ve earned it and worked hard to put themselves in the position they are now in.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:17pmYeah, how about Guantanamo? What better place for these vermin??
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:27pmAlcatraz is perfect
Report Post »franko58
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:06pm“ KAPNKD” That is the best idea ! Why should the 53% NON _ OCCUPYING, working group, now suffer dangerous and incurable diseases, just because all of these mayors and governors, all kissed the Whitehouses, “GOLDEN god’s” BLACK BUTT, isn’t any reason that we should get SERIOUSLY ILL. These “OFFICIALS should all be RECALLED, if they allow these ,DISEASED BEARING ANIMALS, to leave without being quarintined, for the safety of, “WE THE PEOPLE”, the 53%, who HATE OBAMA AND HIS DESTRUCTIVE COMMUNIST GROUP .
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:18pmHow about putting all these yippies/flea-party-pests into quarantine inside some of these F.E.M.A. camps that are supposedly all over the U.S.?
Report Post »Just a thought.
Salamander
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:48pmNO! Round them up and put them in tuberculosis asylums!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:05amWhat the heck. Send ‘em to occupy the WH. Treatment will be contigent upon completion of their patriotic duty. Once it’s over, we’ll use UVGI to sterilize the air. Oh happy day.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:06pmRapes, riots, drug use, overdosing, a shooting and now pestilence……….nah, these kids are just trying to get their message about Wall Street corruption out to the public.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:11pmnot to mention the fluids exchanged, the fecal matter, urine, puke..:pukinggif:
Report Post »gwssacredcause
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:05pmHAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINE CORPS from the proud and thankful grandson of a WWII Okinawa Marine. RIP Grandpa!
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:59pmSemper Fi , Grandpa
Report Post »nonofmybiznez
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:31pmOoh Rah and Oh ah and Arough! to our boys and girls in the Marine Corps!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:04pmVan Jones is SO pleased with the “movement.” In his video he says the Conservatives should now take notice, they are back in charge. He said their mistake was not being LOUD enough for the last two years! GOD HELP US. DOMESTIC TERRORISTS TAKE OVER….
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:54pmThey took over a park…not the northeast corridor.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:48pmAAAAAAAAAA PARK? Do you not read the MSM news at all? The ENTIRE NE corridor would be blessing! They are EVERYWHERE, assualting, rapig unrinating and defictingon others, even holding HOSTAGES! THEY ARE DOMESTIC TERORISTS! PERIOD (paid for by the OBAMA MACHINE) ANIMALS act more civilized.
Report Post »franko58
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:12pmOh lordy ,lordy, when does “COMMY, VAV JONES, GET HIS “TB”? Maybe, because of his life style, HE ALREADY HAS AIDS. God works in mysterious ways !
Report Post »BBReggie
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:04pmIt was only a matter of time. Cold and flu season is coming on …
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:08pmI wonder how many have had their Flu shots? It would only take one sick person to spread the Flu in a camp. That would be a mess. Can you imagine a camp full of OWS protesters with the Flu.. what a bunch of whiners that would be…. oh my!
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:50pmShhh, next thing you know, they’ll all want FREE flu shots, an Obamanoculation! And, they probably need a flea-dip too!
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:03pmMost of them already have the disease of Liberalism. Either way, I don’t wish any of them to get sick. They should all go home and try to make a real difference in the world. Have a nice day.
TEA!
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:34am@Salamander: that is the funniest damn post I nearly fell off my chair laughing!!!
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:03pmJust wait until the hepatitis outbreaks… who do you think they will blame it on and who do you think they will want to pay for their medical care? It sure won’t be their fault. They will claim they were not warned or ‘taught’ properly how to avoid contracting these diseases. Go home, take a bath…. and stay there.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:40pmHotFixIt
Just wait until the hepatitis outbreaks….
My exact thoughts HotFixit..
Report Post »War_Vet
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:01pmIn a word … Nasty!
In the Army, my unit spent over a year straight living in tents and even lesser accomodations without so much as a case of athlete’s foot. These people are completely disgusting.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:01pmNot a hygiene thangie but may have some illegal aliens that are carriers.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:31pmSpeaking about illegals, I just googled “T.B. outbreak among illegal aliens”. I got 128,000 hits. Is it any surprise that cities with large numbers of illegals are having a rash of T.B. outbreaks?
Report Post »rotcarpenter
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:01pmThis is what would happen if we allowed the liberals to take control. Diseases that we don’t even worry about anymore would make a rapid comeback. Wouldn’t be surprised if we see the bubonic plague.
Report Post »wesleyapril
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:08pmReally our children didn’t need all those vaccines, but because we are such a great country and have so many illegal alliens and allow third world slimes in – our children had to be protected from them.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:27pmLiberalism will get you killed!
Report Post »SolidusRaccoon
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:59pmGeee what a shock.
Report Post »S_Malc13
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:59pmCool, I’m gonna bring my HIV over. Anyone got any Hepatitis? Chicken Pox?
Report Post »classicalgas
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 10:02amANY disease will do.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:58pmJust maybe God has had enough of these parasites.
Report Post »dorightfearnothing
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:10pmYeah, that’s what I was thinking too…
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:12pmpretty much where my thoughts were going. God warns and warns and warns and warns. Tries to get our attention. sad sad commentary
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:56pmIt couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people!! Ain’t Karma a Biotch??!!
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:17pmAMEN!! …..Wonder how many of them will now start praying out of fear to not be inflicted with this serious disease??? BUT THEN, if not the TB – probably the STD’s & AIDS will still do them in!
Gotta love the irony of all this!!!!
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