473 People Tested Positive For (TB) Tuberculosis After Bedok Screenings, 'Vast Majority' Expected To Be Non-Contagious

[Sustanon]

473 People Tested Positive For Tuberculosis After Bedok Screenings, 'Vast Majority' Expected To Be Non-Contagious​

Source: https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/473-people-test-positive-tuberculosis-tb-bedok-screening-cda

A total of 473 people screened for tuberculosis in Bedok have tested positive for the bacteria, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Wednesday (May 13).

They make up 14.9 per cent of the 3,169 people who underwent blood tests by the CDA, which said in a statement that the positivity rate is "within expectations".

Those who have tested positive will receive a phone call from the agency to arrange for a chest X-ray appointment, which will determine if they have active TB or latent TB infection (LTBI).

LTBI refers to when a small number of inactive TB bacteria is present in one's body. Patients are not sick, but have a chance of contracting the disease if the bacteria becomes active.

CDA stressed on Wednesday that a positive blood test result does not mean that a person has the active disease.

"The vast majority of these individuals are expected to have LTBI, which means they do not exhibit symptoms of TB, are not infectious, and therefore do not pose a public health risk," it said.

The agency will conduct mobile chest X-rays at Heartbeat@Bedok from May 13 to 15 for those with positive blood test results. Those who are unable to attend can do their X-rays at SATA CommHealth.

Those with normal chest X-ray results, meaning that they have LTBI, will be referred to SATA CommHealth Bedok for free TB preventive treatment, said CDA.

Patients with an abnormal chest X-ray will be further evaluated at the National Tuberculosis Care Centre and begin treatment promptly if diagnosed with active TB disease.

Contact tracing will be conducted for each active TB disease case to identify and evaluate close contacts for screening.

Tuberculosis screenings were conducted from May 2 to 8 in Bedok Central after CDA mapped out 13 TB cases with genetic similarities across three clusters in the area between January 2023 and February 2026.

Several cases had overlapping activity patterns at Heartbeat@Bedok, Block 216 Bedok Food Centre and Market as well as Singapore Pools Bedok Betting Centre, suggesting possible TB exposure through repeated visits or prolonged exposure.

It was mandated that tenants and workers of these places must be screened for TB — but 41 people in this group have not done so.

In its statement on Wednesday, CDA urged them to go for screening, which will be offered for free until June 5.

Those who test negative will be notified of their results via SMS.

According to the agency, the prevalence of LTBI among Singapore residents was 12.7 per cent in 2015. The prevalence increases with age, ranging from 2 per cent among those aged between 18 and 29 years old, to 29 per cent among those aged between 70 and 79 years old.

Treatment for seven of the 13 cases linked to Bedok Central has been completed, while five among the remaining six are still undergoing treatment. One person has died of separate causes not linked to TB.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

437 cases and they say its not contagious?! So how did they contract it? They took supplements from PAPpy govt to acquire the illness?

 

[Sustanon]

 

[Pinkieslut]

Fucking low ses coolie genes Kenna infected by my precious high ses FTs truly Asia!

 

[Tree]

After this report, no Ministers will go there for photo ops liao.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

After this report, no Ministers will go there for photo ops liao.

Ong Ye Kung is 食神

Bedok has been blessed by him so pls go ahead and enjoy the good food there. Don’t forget to order a side of non-contagious TB.

 

[Truthspeak]

Tuberculosis Was Originally Understood as Tissue Degeneration — Not Infection​

Long before bacteriology, tuberculosis was studied through direct anatomical observation. Early authorities consistently described tubercles as arising from softening, degeneration, and inflammatory breakdown of tissue, not from an invading agent.

Franciscus Sylvius, one of the earliest authorities, described tubercles as products of degeneration:

“Even at that early age, it was known to him that these tubercles might soften or degenerate, and in this way give rise to cavities.”
(Chapter I, p. 7).

Morgagni, another foundational figure, explicitly rejected the idea that tubercles were primary entities:

“He maintained also that the accepted view, that tubercles were enlarged glands, was not sufficiently well grounded.”
(p 8).

At this stage, tuberculosis was understood as a constitutional disease, arising from internal pathological changes — not transmission.

Inoculation Experiments Failed to Prove Contagion​

As contagion theory gained traction, researchers attempted to prove tuberculosis infectious through inoculation experiments. These experiments repeatedly produced inflammation and suppuration, but not naturally occurring tuberculosis.

The text notes that pathological products induced experimentally were indistinguishable from ordinary inflammatory lesions:

“The exudation of tubercular inflammations… is distinguished from other inflammatory products only by its small quantity of water, the exudation assuming on this account a cheesy state.”
(p. 14)

In other words: cheesy material did not prove infection — it proved tissue dehydration and degeneration.

Reinhardt later dismantled the idea that tubercle corpuscles were specific disease agents:

“Tubercle-corpuscles… were simply deposits of pus, and in no way the products of a distinct pathological process.”
(p. 17)

Koch’s Bacillus: Presence Without Proof of Causation​

While Koch’s discovery of the tubercle bacillus created global excitement, the book makes clear that his conclusions were immediately challenged — including by Spina himself.

The preface states plainly:

“Dr. Spina is the first assistant in the laboratory of Prof. Stricker at Vienna, and is a most formidable critic and opponent of the theories of Koch.”
(Preface, p. vi)

Crucially, Koch did not demonstrate natural transmission. Instead, his conclusions relied on artificial inoculation — the same methodological flaw that plagued earlier contagion claims.

Later investigators acknowledged a fatal weakness:

“Buhl himself admits… that in many cases of unmistakable acute miliary tuberculosis, the primary center may be absent.”
(p. 23)

If no consistent primary infectious focus existed, contagion could not be established.

The Missing Evidence: No Demonstration of Natural Spread​

Perhaps the most damaging admission in the historical record is how often infection was assumed rather than observed.

The author explicitly warns against circular reasoning:

“The acceptance… of the theory that in those cases where no primary center is observed it is nevertheless present, is liable to mislead.”
(p. 24)

And later:

“He neither directly demonstrated the existence of a virus in the cheesy substance, nor indirectly furnished proofs.”
(p. 24)

This is critical: even proponents of infection admitted the virus was never demonstrated.

Terrain Over Transmission​

Throughout the text, tuberculosis is repeatedly linked to constitutional weakness, inflammatory states, and tissue susceptibility — not exposure.

Virchow himself, often misrepresented as a contagionist, emphasized degeneration:

“He did not regard caseation as a distinct pathological process, but saw in it rather a kind of necrosis — partial, not completed, fatty metamorphosis.”
(p. 18)

This places tuberculosis firmly within terrain-dependent pathology, where microbes — if present at all — are secondary participants.

Conclusion: Tuberculosis Was Never Proven Contagious​

Based on the historical and experimental evidence available at the height of tuberculosis research, contagion was never conclusively demonstrated.

Instead, the record shows:

• Degeneration precedes tubercle formation
• Inoculation produces inflammation, not disease replication
• Koch’s bacillus lacked causal proof
• Natural transmission was never demonstrated
• Primary infectious centers were often absent

As the text itself makes clear, tuberculosis was — and remained — a disease of internal conditions, not external invasion.

Understanding this history does not require rejecting all of modern medicine. It does, however, requires acknowledging that the foundation of contagion theory rested on assumptions, not proof — and that terrain-based interpretations were scientifically mainstream, not fringe.

 

[laksaboy]

Relax, many more got STDs.

 

[Truthspeak]

437 cases and they say its not contagious?! So how did they contract it? They took supplements from PAPpy govt to acquire the illness?

TB was never contagious.
Contagion is a part of the germ theory and a hoax to fool the sheeple that germs caused a disease

Old people get TB for a reason

Learning true health is important so that you don’t get fooled by the conman

 

[True Believer]

Why did this TB outbreak happen in Bedok where the S'pore Anti-Tuberculosis Association or SATA HQ is located? Did the TB originate from there?

 

[Truthspeak]

473 People Tested Positive For Tuberculosis After Bedok Screenings, 'Vast Majority' Expected To Be Non-Contagious​

Source: https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/473-people-test-positive-tuberculosis-tb-bedok-screening-cda

A total of 473 people screened for tuberculosis in Bedok have tested positive for the bacteria, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Wednesday (May 13).

They make up 14.9 per cent of the 3,169 people who underwent blood tests by the CDA, which said in a statement that the positivity rate is "within expectations".

Those who have tested positive will receive a phone call from the agency to arrange for a chest X-ray appointment, which will determine if they have active TB or latent TB infection (LTBI).

LTBI refers to when a small number of inactive TB bacteria is present in one's body. Patients are not sick, but have a chance of contracting the disease if the bacteria becomes active.

CDA stressed on Wednesday that a positive blood test result does not mean that a person has the active disease.

"The vast majority of these individuals are expected to have LTBI, which means they do not exhibit symptoms of TB, are not infectious, and therefore do not pose a public health risk," it said.

The agency will conduct mobile chest X-rays at Heartbeat@Bedok from May 13 to 15 for those with positive blood test results. Those who are unable to attend can do their X-rays at SATA CommHealth.

Those with normal chest X-ray results, meaning that they have LTBI, will be referred to SATA CommHealth Bedok for free TB preventive treatment, said CDA.

Patients with an abnormal chest X-ray will be further evaluated at the National Tuberculosis Care Centre and begin treatment promptly if diagnosed with active TB disease.

Contact tracing will be conducted for each active TB disease case to identify and evaluate close contacts for screening.

Tuberculosis screenings were conducted from May 2 to 8 in Bedok Central after CDA mapped out 13 TB cases with genetic similarities across three clusters in the area between January 2023 and February 2026.

Several cases had overlapping activity patterns at Heartbeat@Bedok, Block 216 Bedok Food Centre and Market as well as Singapore Pools Bedok Betting Centre, suggesting possible TB exposure through repeated visits or prolonged exposure.

It was mandated that tenants and workers of these places must be screened for TB — but 41 people in this group have not done so.

In its statement on Wednesday, CDA urged them to go for screening, which will be offered for free until June 5.

Those who test negative will be notified of their results via SMS.

According to the agency, the prevalence of LTBI among Singapore residents was 12.7 per cent in 2015. The prevalence increases with age, ranging from 2 per cent among those aged between 18 and 29 years old, to 29 per cent among those aged between 70 and 79 years old.

Treatment for seven of the 13 cases linked to Bedok Central has been completed, while five among the remaining six are still undergoing treatment. One person has died of separate causes not linked to TB.

The objective is to vaccinate the sheeple

 

[laksaboy]

Why did this TB outbreak happen in Bedok where the S'pore Anti-Tuberculosis Association or SATA HQ is located? Did the TB originate from there?

Either it's a new gain-of-function improved TB released from the biolabs, or SATA is a purely jiakliaobee organization.

 

[Truthspeak]

Either it's a new gain-of-function improved TB released from the biolabs, or SATA is a purely jiakliaobee organization.

There was nothing release from biolabs.

 

[k1976]

Either it's a new gain-of-function improved TB released from the biolabs, or SATA is a purely jiakliaobee organization.

They did a very good job under Lao Lee headship de woh

 

[True Believer]

Either it's a new gain-of-function improved TB released from the biolabs, or SATA is a purely jiakliaobee organization.

SATA is a social enterprise masquerading as a bonifide charity. I heard that less than 10% of their patients are subsidised.

 

[k1976]

SATA is a social enterprise masquerading as a bonifide charity. I heard that less than 10% of their patients are subsidised.

We can not based on hearsay de woh

 

[True Believer]

They did a very good job under Lao Lee

Based on online employee reviews of SATA, there are grave concerns regarding the management. Many current and former staff allege cronyism is extremely strong and there is a high level of favoritism as well as politics being practiced. Promotion and appraisals processes are influenced by personal connections rather than merit. A blind eye is turned to bullying by the management too.

 

[True Believer]

We can not based on hearsay de woh

I know a current staff in mid-management and also read online reviews by past and present employees.