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Amen to all of this. I am going through something similar which feels like a variation on the same type of thing: my husband can't get his visa to come to the US right now because he has asymtomatic tuberculosis. They gave him a ton of medicine which he's been taking. Since it is asymptomatic I can't tell if the medicine is working because there are no symptoms to go away. I assumed that he was going to get a follow up chest x-ray a few days ago which would hopefuly show that something is going on in his lungs which is less than it was before. No. They just automatically classify it as contagious for two months then need another four months to clear him as fit! The side effects of this may include being shunned by friends and family, inability to work/economic destitution, homelessness, forced seperation from loved ones and heartbreak. Now my daughter has been arguing that maybe they caught something just in the nick of time. Maybe. But wouldn't I then want to see a chest x-ray which hopefully shows clearing, especially since this pill regiment only has a 50% "cure" rate? It smells off indeed...

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