Revelation 6:7,8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.
A woman with extremely hard to treat tuberculosis has been sent to the National Institutes of Health in Washington as health officials are tracking down hundreds who may have had contact with her.
“The patient was transferred to the NIH via special air and ground ambulances,” the NIH said in a statement.
The woman reportedly traveled to three states before she felt ill enough to seek medical attention.
“The patient traveled in April from India to the United States through Chicago O’Hare airport,” the CDC said in a statement provided to NBC News. “The patient also spent time in Missouri and Tennessee. Seven weeks after arriving in the United States, the patient sought treatment for and was diagnosed with active TB.”
The woman is now isolated at the NIH after her initial isolation in Chicago.
“The patient is staying in an isolation room in the NIH Clinical Center specifically designed for handling patients with respiratory infections, including XDR-TB. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, is providing care and treatment for the patient in connection with an existing NIH clinical protocol for treating TB, including XDR forms. NIAID has treated other XDR-TB patients in the past under this protocol,” the NIH said.
The patient, whose identity is being kept secret, is facing months or years of treatment. XDR-TB sometimes requires surgery to remove pockets of infection. Up to half the people infected with the strain cannot be cured.
