[exDemMom]

I had a conversation with a man that supplies porta-johns this morning. He supplies many to farm fields where many of the workers are not even illegals but have work permits and are living here. He said legal requirements for farmers is that they provide the porta-johns, hand wash stations, antibacterial soap, the works for sanitation for field workers. The man told me few workers use the porta-johns, most use them for cover and go to the bathroom behind the porta-johns instead of inside them. The workers are using only small amounts of antibacterial soap- what would last a day in many locations will last a month or more. They use small amounts of toilet paper and water as well. He said worse than that the farmers still have problems with the employees simply going to the bathroom in the field where they are harvesting crops...

You've described great conditions for spreading cholera or E. coli O157H7, and probably a few other bugs--people do, in fact, get sick from eating raw produce frequently--but not Ebola. With an upper incubation period of 21 days, and average of 8 days, the chance that an illegal immigrant would be able to travel from Africa to a field in the US before becoming symptomatic is almost nil. They would probably die in the desert as soon as the coyotes bringing them abandon them for signs of illness.

[Tammy8]

So you think people with third world sanitation issues would somehow suddenly conform to modern sanitation if one or more did get Ebola? I disagree and think if anyone from those type of communities gets ill it will spread fast among them. Recently the CDC was chasing and had to arrest an illegal that fled from treatment for TB. I am sure if it was Ebola they would change their whole attitude and lifestyle. Right?

You seem to have little knowledge of how illegals migrate North. They travel in groups, not all with coyotes and are often in close quarters in vehicles, trains, buses, shelters, etc. If one gets sick in a group with a coyote they are usually abandoned but often one will stay to help a sick person. That person would continue on if they realized they could not help. Think of a relay situation, and remember they all think of our medical care as magical so all that became ill would become determined to get here for medical help instead of going to the closest medical facility.

Illegals from Africa are indeed found here every year, and do travel in groups with Chinese, Mexicans, and those from Central America. The person that left Africa with Ebola would certainly not be the same person that arrived at the border with it, but due to conditions of their travel I would bet more would be getting it along the way.

I do believe we are at far greater risk of Ebola arriving by airplane or ship, but to think it is impossible for it to come in the Southern border is pretty naive.