Tijuana is Perfectly Safe
All you need to do is read the Brockton O'Toole FAQ. Follow your plan to park on the U.S. side and cab it back and forth to the zona norte. If you stick to the Adelita Bar and the Hong Kong Club you don't even need to cross the street. Go on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night to find the best selection of girls.
Regards,
Bunky
Detroit and portion of South Central crime rate make TJ a safe town?
Bunky: "Tijuana is Perfectly Safe"
Since when? TJ is a border town with it's typical Mexican crime rate which might match the crime rate of certain US cities like Detroit and South Central.
Does that make TJ a perfectly safe town?
No.
Should one visit TJ?
One can during the day time and maximize personal safety.
[QUOTE=Bunky]All you need to do is read the Brockton O'Toole FAQ. Follow your plan to park on the U.S. side and cab it back and forth to the zona norte. If you stick to the Adelita Bar and the Hong Kong Club you don't even need to cross the street. Go on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night to find the best selection of girls.
Regards,
Bunky[/QUOTE]
Health, Happiness & Safety in TJ and Border towns
Volume 16, Number 5–May 2010
Research/ CDC ([url]http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/5/757.htm[/url])
[b][color=red]Latent Tuberculosis among Persons at Risk for Infection with HIV, Tijuana, Mexico [/b][/color]
Richard S. Garfein, Rafael Laniado-Laborin, Timothy C. Rodwell, Remedios Lozada, Robert Deiss, Jose Luis Burgos, Jazmine Cuevas-Mota, Paris Cerecer, Kathleen Moser, Maria Luisa Volker, and Steffanie A. Strathdee
Author affiliations: University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, USA (R.S. Garfein, T.C. Rodwell, R. Deiss, J.L. Burgos, J. Cuevas-Mota, S.A. Strathdee); Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico (R. Laniado-Laborin); Patronato Pro-Comité Municipal de Prevención del SIDA, Tijuana (R. Lozada); Instituto de Servicios de Salud Pública del Estado de Baja California, Tijuana (P. Cerecer, M.L. Volker); and San Diego County Department of Health and Human Services, San Diego (K. Moser)
[QUOTE=Abstract]
Because there is little routine tuberculosis (TB) screening in Mexico, the prevalence of latent TB infection (LTBI) is unknown. In the context of an increasing HIV epidemic in Tijuana, Mexico, understanding prevalence of LTBI to anticipate emergence of increased LTBI reactivation is critical. Therefore, we recruited injection drug users, noninjection drug users, female sex workers, and homeless persons for a study involving risk assessment, rapid HIV testing, and TB screening. Of 503 participants, the overall prevalences of TB infection, HIV infection, and TB/HIV co-infection were 57%, 4.2%, and 2.2%, respectively; no significant differences by risk group (p>0.05) were observed. Two participants had TB (prevalence 398/100,000). Incarceration in Mexico (odds ratio [OR] 2.28), age (OR 1.03 per year), and years lived in Tijuana (OR 1.02 per year) were independently associated with TB infection (p<0.05). Frequent LTBI in marginalized persons may lead to increases in TB as HIV spreads. [/QUOTE]
[b]Tuberculosis (TB) is endemic to Mexico. The national TB incidence is estimated to be 16.2 cases/100,000, but regional rates, particularly along the United States–Mexico border are much higher (1). Baja California, which shares a border with California, has the highest incidence of pulmonary TB in Mexico (57 cases/100,000), which is >3× the national average (2). Furthermore, California and Baja California have the highest incidence rates of all the border states in their respective countries (1). Transmission of TB from high-prevalence countries to low-prevalence countries, such as the United States, poses a major public health concern. Tijuana, the largest city in Baja California, Mexico, lies ≈20 miles south of downtown San Diego, California, and these 2 cities are loosely separated by the busiest land border crossing in the world, with >90,000 passenger vehicles crossing in both directions daily (3). As a possible consequence of this close binational association, San Diego has a slightly higher incidence of TB than California (8.4 per 100,000 and 7.0 per 100,000, respectively) (4,5). [/b]
Otherwise healthy persons with dormant or latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) have a 10% lifetime risk that dormant mycobacteria will become active and cause TB. Persons co-infected with HIV and LTBI have a risk for TB reactivation of 10% per year (6). Consequently, TB is a leading cause of death worldwide among persons co-infected with TB and HIV (7). Although HIV prevalence in Mexico is lower than that in the United States, [b]Tijuana is currently experiencing an emerging HIV epidemic (8), with increasing prevalence observed among high-risk groups such as injection drug users (IDUs) and female sex workers (FSWs) (9–11). The potential for rapid HIV transmission among IDUs in Mexico is highlighted by findings from Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez (a border city south of El Paso, Texas), which showed that 95% of IDUs in these cities had antibodies against hepatitis C virus (a marker of unsafe injection practices), and most IDUs had self-reported risk factors for sexual or parenteral exposure to HIV (12). Thus, there is concern that increased HIV incidence would result in LTBI reactivation among IDUs who spread active TB to other populations, which would lead to a more generalized epidemic.[/b]
[QUOTE=Supersteve]Overall, IMO, the amount of ladies is down in the Zona is down from last year.
On the weekends, HK seems to have the largest number of women, and lookers, during the day. AB & Las Chavelas pick up at night, and on occasion Bar Tropical and Chicago Club will have a good looking lady, ......
Health & happiness.........[/QUOTE]
So the army are the good guys?
Not...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJmmScwbQvo&feature=player_embedded#!
