MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Kevin Cokely – “At least 80 students, teachers and staff at Ennis High School have tested positive for exposure to tuberculosis.

The skin tests were ordered because a teacher now on medical leave was diagnosed with the bacterial infection just before the first day of school.

Dr. Brian Smith of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said people who a positive skin test normally are not sick and are not infectious.

‘What a positive skin test means is that a person has been exposed to the disease and they have picked up a tiny bit of the bacteria that has caused their body to react to the skin test, so in those persons you can kill the bacteria by giving a single medication for nine months,’ he said.

Those who tested positive are now being told to get chest X-rays at Baylor Medical Center in Waxahachie.

Sixteen-year-old Shabrekia Richardson found out Friday her skin test came back positive.

‘I was shocked,’ the high school junior said. ‘I actually started crying. … I just thought, ‘I’m in a school.’ I never thought in a school I could get something like this.'” Read more.

WHO: Dangerous Tuberculosis Spreading at Alarming Rate in Europe, Will Kill Thousands If Not Halted – “Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) are spreading at an alarming rate in Europe and will kill thousands unless health authorities halt the pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. Launching a new regional plan to find, diagnose and treat cases of the airborne infectious disease more effectively, the WHO’s European director warned that complacency had allowed a resurgence of TB and failure to tackle it now would mean huge human and economic costs in the future.” Read more.