JerryChicken wrote:
There is only one tiny grain of truth in the original post but its not related to spitting, or immigration really.
23 years ago our <1 year old child developed a growth on her spine and during a two week spell in hospital we were all tested for TB, blood tests, x-rays etc - at that time TB had been eradicated in the UK for a generation at least (my father had it just after the war), when I expressed this to the consultant in charge of my daughter he explained that the human form of TB, in its several forms, was making a comeback in the UK and the explanation accepted by medical practitioners was not the influx of immigrants as such, but the second and third generations of immigrants from the Indian continent who were going to their parents and grandparents country's of origin for holidays and bringing it back with them - they of course being British citizens.
And the daughters condition cleared up nicely thank you without ever being diagnosed as anything other than a viral infection.
A few months prior to being paralysed the infection that caused the paralysis was initially diagnosed as TB around the spine and then a subsequent test proved negative. Later in the spinal unit the consultant, from Pakistan, explained how the Asian community suffered greatly with TB. According to the consultant there is a rise in the number of incidents of TB here in the UK mainly in immigrants from Asian countries. The infection can lie dormant in the body for decades. he never mentioned spitting.
On a spitting point I was at an event for beer and wine tasters in London many years ago and was introduced to a couple of women I shocked the group by asking did they spit or swallow?
Wine tasters "spit" out after tasting, beer tasters "swallow" the sample for further tasting. Luckily they understood the joke.
