Mendel Mantoux-Test

The other day I had to take my little angel for a Mendel Mantoux-Test (this is a kind of test to detect Tuberculosis (TB)), which is required by her school. As you all know TB is coming back as a global public health problem, therefore the school is taking every precaution to protect their students, which in my opinion is very noble.

Back home I have always been very conscious of this disease due to the fact that we are being invaded by not only immigrants but mostly illegal ones. It is scary to think of the high risk that we are facing just walking in the mall, going to the movie or eating in a restaurant, and our government is not doing much about the situation at all.

I am so glad that my little angel is being tested for this disease, the test is quite simple. Mendel Mantous used purified protein derivatives of the TB. The doctor just pricks her left arm with the purified protein, and told her not to scratch or to put a plaster on it, and then off we go. We will have to come back next Monday for the diagnosis.

I hope someday our Government will be responsible enough to introduce such tests for our school going children, as they were responsible for opening our country’s doors to the pests who invade it shamelessly. But then again who can blame these pests as most of them are now either related to the influence people there, or by virtue of political corruption our country is theirs now.

One day………………… May be!!!!