Increase in TB cases in Buenos Aires linked to sweat shops working conditions

Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

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Tuberculosis cases in Buenos Aires City have increased 25% between 1985 and 2011 according to a paper presented by a Federal Attorney who links the surge to dreadful working conditions in many of the sweat-shops in the Argentine capital that employ cheap foreign labor. Read full article

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Anglotino
From capital of one of the world's richest countries to a sweatshop.
Jan 09th, 2014 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
The government obviously know these sweatshops exist, why not close them down?
Jan 09th, 2014 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
slave labour..
Jan 09th, 2014 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
2. The local Police, health inspectors, fire inspectors etc etc etc are paid to look the other way.
Then they are shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, when there is a fire or the building collapses and the people die.
Jan 09th, 2014 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
My Argentine neighbour caught TB from somebody in BsAs and the specialist said it could have been one of the migrant workers.

He was so ill it took him a full 12 months to get off the programme but he’s OK now, thank goodness.
Jan 09th, 2014 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Troy Tempest
These TB cases in sweatshops wouldn't be the exploited migrant poor workers who are part of the 167,000 living in the “Misery Villages” would they??

“Authorities are shocked !! Shocked I tell you!!”
Jan 09th, 2014 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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reality check
So what are we saying here.

Migration spreads disease? hardly a new concept.

Are we forgetting the plague or the spanish flue, which took more lives than the Great War.

Particularly poignant in 2014, you think?
Jan 10th, 2014 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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