Tuberculosis used to be a global plague. Many contracted TB, and many died from it, from Britain's Henry VII to America's John Henry "Doc" Holliday. It's also a fairly simple disease, caused by an agile little bug, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which has the unfortunate propensity to develop into antibiotic-resistant strains. And what's more, it's a bug that's contagious, can be spread by aerosol, and is a prime subject for use as a biological agent.

On Wednesday, a report surfaced that Lousiana's Governor, Jeff Landry, and the state's attorney general, are suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the case of an illegal immigrant, from China, who was discovered to be carrying a rare, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis: //

The very notion of biological warfare should scare the ever-loving kapok out of anyone who understands it, and if one was going to introduce a biological agent into another country, this is one way you'd do it - but you wouldn't send just one carrier. You'd send hundreds or thousands.

Like the tens of thousands of Chinese nationals who have entered the country illegally since January of 2021, through our wide-open southern border. //

Mongoose
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TB (also known as consumption or "the white plague" or in Spanish, "La Miseria, which sort of captures the essence of the TB experience...) is easily the greatest killer in world history. TB death rates at times were as high as one in every five or six people who shuffled off the mortal coil each year. It still kills over a million people each year worldwide and it's been doing that or much, much more for at least 4,000 years, so do the math. Drug resistant TB is a national security threat. If antibiotics start failing against TB, we're in real trouble. It should scare everybody.
Unfortunately, I don't believe Alejandro Mayorkas gives a hoot in hell about this threat.