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Article #1753Re: Border control needed for disease control
From: Jim
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:34
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:34
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"johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote in message news:<Xp9sd.38508$Ch2.15679@bignews5.bellsouth.net>... > Friday, December 03, 2004 > > The government is ignoring another form or terrorism entering the US > through our slipshod borders: leprosy, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, and > Chagas Disease, now endemic in our country. > > In the past three years, according to the Center for Immigration > Studies, over 100,000 cases of hepatitis, extremely contagious, have > been documented in the United States. Just one illegal who worked at a > Denver fast-foot restaurant last fall infected over 1,000 patrons with > Hepatitis A. > > Since 2001, leprosy has exceeded 7,000 new cases, thanks to newcomers. > Most of those infected in our country are illegal-alien immigrants who > hail from leprosy hot spots in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, and India. > > Tuberculosis also enters in the bodies of newcomers to America. Mother > Jones News article, �THE PATIENT PREDATOR" by Dr. Kevin Patterson: > "Tuberculosis is back, and thanks to globalization, immigration, and > slipshod treatment, it's deadlier than ever. It kills two-million people > a year." > > "We sit on the edge of potential catastrophe. Government won't take this > problem seriously, doctors don't treat it, and the public thinks TB > isn't sexy enough to merit attention.� So says Dr. Lee Reichman, > executive director of New Jersey's Medical Schools National Tuberculosis > Center. > > These new strains are resistant to all known antibiotics. > > One infected illegal alien will infect between 10 to 50 > Americans---depending on his public contact. If that illegal alien has > children, now numbering over 1.1-million illegal-alien kids in U.S. > schools, your kids are at risk. > > Chagas Disease is a T-cruzi parasite that infects 14-million people in > South America. Known as "Kiss of Death" because it�s spread by a kissing > bug, kills 50,000 annually. Undectable, it travels in the blood stream. > South and Central Americans crash our borders carrying the disease. It > attacks the heart and other organs. > > When illegals give blood, they contaminate our blood supplies. Deaths > are traced back to this problem, including three heart transplant victims. > > When are we going to demand our government take action to guard our > borders? Anthrax is not the only form of bioterrorism! > > http://www.illinoisleader.com/letters/lettersview.asp?c=21296 And the President is encouraging this flow of illegals. http://www.fairus.org/ http://projectusa.org/ Jim
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