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I didn't see any research and numbers yet.  Are there
any?

Cheers -- Martha Adams    [sci.med    2007 Mar 14]

"KenStahl" <ktsahl@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Kitty wrote:
>
>> "KenStahl" <ktsahl@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>> news:cPGJh.13010$MG4.8404@fe191.usenetserver.com...
>>
>>>theodoric3@lycos.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Mar 13, 4:10 pm, "DorE" <90835x...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Illegal Immigrants Are Spreading Dangerous Diseases Across This 
>>>>>Nation
>>>>>By Dave Gibson
>>>>>
>>>>>It is often said that the flood of illegal immigrants into this
>>>>>country is reaching 'epidemic proportions.' While that statement is
>>>>>true--it is just as true that the illegal immigrants pouring over 
>>>>>the
>>>>>U.S.-Mexican border are endangering this country with actual
>>>>>epidemics. Tuberculosis, hepatitis, dengue fever, chagas, and even
>>>>>leprosy are being imported into the U.S. inside the bodies of 
>>>>>illegal
>>>>>aliens...And you thought they only carried heroin-filled baloons
>>>>>inside their bodies!
>>>>>
>>>>>A 'hot-zone' of disease can be found in this nations border states.
>>>>>Illegal immigrants are setting up so-called "colonias" just inside 
>>>>>the
>>>>>states of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The shanty towns are
>>>>>comprised mostly of cardboard shacks and huts made with cast-off
>>>>>building materials. They have no sanitation, and are surrounded by
>>>>>mounds of garbage. The estimated 185,000 illegals share their
>>>>>makeshift towns with armies of rats. Of course, diseases only 
>>>>>common
>>>>>to Central and South America run rampant in these places.
>>>>>
>>>>>One of the imports to this country is chagas disease. It is caused 
>>>>>by
>>>>>a parasite known as trypanosome. It is a blood-borne disease and is
>>>>>spread by triatomine insects. The parasite burrows into human 
>>>>>tissue
>>>>>(usually in the face), where it then begins to multiply. In 
>>>>>addition
>>>>>to being spread by insects, it can also be contracted through blood
>>>>>transfusions.
>>>>>
>>>>>After cases of chagas were reportedly discovered to have been 
>>>>>spread
>>>>>by transfusions in Canada, that nation began testing all blood
>>>>>donations for the disease.
>>>>>
>>>>>For 40 years, the number of recorded cases of leprosy within the
>>>>>United States totaled 900. Today, we know of more than 7,000 
>>>>>current
>>>>>cases of leprosy in the U.S.
>>>>>
>>>>>Dr. John Levis of New York's Bellevue Hospital's Hansen Disease 
>>>>>Clinic
>>>>>said of America's documented cases of leprosy: 'There are probably
>>>>>many, many more and they are spreading."
>>>>>
>>>>>Most of those in the U.S. who are suffering from leprosy are from
>>>>>Mexico, India, Brazil, and the Caribbean. However, there are a few
>>>>>documented cases in which the person became infected with leprosy
>>>>>inside the U.S. The majority of the cases have been discovered in 
>>>>>this
>>>>>nation's northeastern region.
>>>>>
>>>>>Once thought to be nearly eradicated in this country, TB is now 
>>>>>making
>>>>>a strong comeback. In a recent interview with Mother Jones 
>>>>>Magazine,
>>>>>Dr. Reichman of The New Jersey TB Clinic recently said: In the 
>>>>>1990's,
>>>>>cases among foreign born Americans rose from 29 percent to 41.6
>>>>>percent. Antibiotic resistant strains from Mexico have migrated to
>>>>>Texas. Since three years ago, 16,000 new cases of TB were 
>>>>>discovered
>>>>>in the United States. Half were foreign born. Strains of TB once 
>>>>>only
>>>>>found in Mexico have migrated to the border states of Texas, 
>>>>>Arizona,
>>>>>New Mexico, and California. It will move north as illegal aliens 
>>>>>work
>>>>>in restaurants as cooks, dishwashers, and food handlers. We sit on 
>>>>>the
>>>>>edge of a potential catastrophe."
>>>>>
>>>>>In 2001, New York's Tuberculosis Control Program discovered that 81
>>>>>percent of that city's new cases of TB were attributed to 
>>>>>immigrants
>>>>>
>>>>>Cases of TB are now being found in many areas of the country, where
>>>>>there are high concentrations of illegal immigrants. In March of 
>>>>>2002,
>>>>>The Washington Post reported that Virginia's Prince William County
>>>>>experienced a 188 percent increase of TB infections over the 
>>>>>previous
>>>>>year. Yes, the streets of Prince William County are over-run with
>>>>>illegal aliens seeking day-laborer jobs.
>>>>>
>>>>>Last year, the rate of TB in the northern part of Virginia rose 17
>>>>>percent. The Va. Department of Health blamed the rise on that 
>>>>>region's
>>>>>recent flood of illegal immigrants. Many strains of TB are being 
>>>>>found
>>>>>in certain neighborhoods, which are dominated by illegal Latin
>>>>>American immigrants.
>>>>>
>>>>>The threats posed to our country by illegal immigration are many.
>>>>>However, our political leaders will undoubtedly continue to ignore
>>>>>them. Our own president is willing to place all Americans at risk, 
>>>>>in
>>>>>exchange for securing the Latino vote for the Republican Party.
>>>>>
>>>>>[ed note: they know most Latinos won't vote Republican. It's
>>>>>being done to supply slave labor to the upper class and to
>>>>>eliminate the white middle class]
>>>>>
>>>>>If left unchecked, illegal immigration will destroy this nation one
>>>>>way or another.
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.rense.com/general75/shanty.htm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>And our worthless government does nothing to stop the flood of
>>>>illegals.
>>>>
>>>>greg
>>>>
>>>>http://www.newnation.com/index2.html  New Nation News
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>That's what we get for having Republicans in the White House.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Illegals didn't START sneaking in, on Jan 20 2001
>>
>>
>> Kitty
>
> Some of them did. A lot have done it since then. There were also many 
> between 1981-1992.
>