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Thread ID: 10382 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-10-09
2003-10-09 22:40 | User Profile
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[B]LEPROSY AND TUBERCULOSIS RISING FAST IN THE USA[/B]
By Frosty Wooldridge Sep 25, 2003, 00:50
Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing and other city residents in Michigan need to understand they are getting more than they bargained for with increased illegal immigration. By giving illegal aliens an ID card or any assistance, you'll only get more of them. But it's what they are carrying that you won't want. Few media sources report on the horrific health care crisis being imported into the United States . There is another ticking bomb crossing our borders daily by the thousands-- entirely unregulated, unscreened and untracked in our nation. Their numbers average two per minute crossing our southern border and over 800,000 annually, according the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC. SARS and West Nile virus make big news, but other diseases are creeping into the heartland unnoticed.
In the past 40 years, the US incidents of leprosy stood at 900 recorded cases. Today because of massive immigration from Third World countries, we have more than 7,000 people suffering with leprosy, ''And those are the ones we know about," said Dr. John Levis, physician at Bellevue Hospital's Hansen's Disease Clinic in New York. "There are probably many, many more and they are spreading." Most of those infected in the United States are immigrants from global leprosy hot spots, places: Mexico, Brazil, India and the Caribbean . But, in the past six years, Levis and his colleagues have proved that a few of his patients - including a 73-year-old man from Queens who had never been out of the country and an elderly Jewish man from Westchester County, New York - have contracted leprosy in the United States. Leprosy's symptomsââ¬âbumpy rashes, skin indentations and loss of feeling in hands and feet. As a result, the disease is now officially endemic to the Northeastern United States for the first time ever.
Another bug riding in the bodies of newcomers to America is tuberculosis. In a recent article from 'THE PATIENT PREDATOR', Dr. Reichman of New Jersey TB Clinic, "In the 1990s, cases among foreign born Americans rose from 29 percent to 41.6 percent. Anti-biotic 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 found only in Mexico have migrated to 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."
Disease is another crisis 'sneaking' across our borders in the form of unrestricted illegal immigration. Once it's inside our country, it's our problem and we will be forced to pay for it. If Michigan political leaders okay the Matricula Consular card and assist illegal immigration by not enforcing our Homeland Security laws, Michigan residents and their children are susceptible to more diseases. Hepatitis A,B and C run rampant in fast food workers. These diseases kill. It's that simple and that harsh.
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Source: NY Times, Sharon Lerner, 2/20/03, 'LEPROSY ON THE RISE IN THE US'; Source: Dr. Kevin Patterson, 'THE PATIENT PREDATOR: TUBERCULOSIS', Mother Jones News, March Issue, pages 72--79.
2003-10-12 10:28 | User Profile
Let's not forget those lovely little disease-spreaders and blood-suckers, BEDBUGS. Solzenitzyn wrote about them a lot, anyone who's read The Gulag Archipelago knows about them in literary form; well, now in the US thanks to the wonders of multiculturalism, we get to experience them first-hand, aren't we lucky? In the Bay Area of California, the local health officials used to get bedbug calls once or twice a year, now it's once or twice a day.
All we can hope for is some clever way to associate bedbugs with the Chosen, because maybe it's only be literally getting bitten on the ass that the average American will wake up to the problem of BOTH kinds of blood-suckers.
2003-10-12 10:59 | User Profile
Acorn,
Blood suckers of both types, indeed! :lol:
[QUOTE]"In the 1990s, cases among foreign born Americans rose from 29 percent to 41.6 percent. Anti-biotic resistant strains from Mexico have migrated to Texas.[/QUOTE]
I'm suspicious of this statement. Are they really "Americans," or is this just another p.c. way of saying "illegal aliens?" Sounds like illegals to me and to think, 100 years ago the U.S. did a good job keeping people who had infectious diseases out, save one particular nasty strain of infection. They didn't do a good job keeping the Jews, particularly from eastern Europe out of America. It is partially because of them that we have this problem in the first place.
That is the worst disease of all.