Trudeau apologize for TB patients

Tuberculosis rates in the North are 290 times higher than in rest of Canada.

The reason why is because of Social Sharing.

Infection rates in the North are similar to those in the developing world; the rate of tuberculosis infection in Canada is very much higher in the North.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to apologize for the way the Canadian government treated Inuit patients with tuberculosis in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.

In actions reminiscent of the Sixties Scoop, and of the government forcibly sending Indigenous children to residential schools, thousands of Inuit patients were taken from their communities by the government and brought south for treatment.

But many of them died, and no one ever told their families what happened or where they were buried.

Canadians may think of tuberculosis as a disease of the past, but it is still one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide.

And it is still a serious disease in this country especially for people living in the North.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a highly infectious and contagious disease caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis that mainly affects the lungs.

According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms include: Coughing for more than three weeks, coughing up blood, Chest pain with breathing or coughing, Weight loss, Fatigue, Fever, Night sweats, chills.

Story Courtesy of CBC.