I'm not the originator, but I have them-- stand by...
Posted on 06/29/2007 3:04:03 AM PDT by Texas Jack
A Mansfield High School (suburb of Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas) student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and the school district is notifying students who may need to be tested.
According to the Mansfield ISD Web site, officials sent out letters on Wednesday to parents of students who attended the school in the spring.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
TB, quite common in cattle, was virtually eradicated in the U.S. prior to 1990 has made a dramatic comeback, along with bed bugs. I suspect it tracks closely to the number of illegals (many who live among livestock prior to coming to the US) crossing our borders and working in hotels, fast-food restaurants, and of course, attending our public schools.
Next time you are in a McDonald's, or any other fast-food restaurant, ask yourself, does the person serving me my food have TB.
Someone here on FR produced a few U.S. maps of illegal alien demographics and TB infection rates. Comparing the maps visually made it clear that there’s an obvious correspondence between TB outbreaks and the communities in which illegals settle.
Wish I could remember who was posting those.
Snark aside, TB is no laughing matter- my Dad contracted it in 1910, before antibiotics were available, and it nearly killed him.
In the fifties, a neighbor had it, and I can remember him being quaranteened. Bad stuff.
TB imports to be provided by all the illegals was just another amendment provided in the sellout shamnesty bill of the US traitors in the senate!!!!
This is an older article, and it’s interesting that our government isn’t moe concerned about it (400% increase!!).
NOT A SINGLE ONE of the 15 to 20 million Z VISA APPLICANTS was required to have a TB SCREENING. Whereas ALL LEGAL IMMIGRANTS OBTAIN A COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL SCREENING FOR TB, STDs, and other diseases, as well as several innoculations required buy the Centers For Disease Control (CDC).
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/104/1/e8
PEDIATRICS Vol. 104 No. 1 July 1999, p. e8
Immigration and Tuberculosis Among Children on the United States-Mexico Border, County of San Diego, California
Thomas A. Kenyon, MD, MPH*, Dagger , Cynthia Driver, RN, MPHDagger , Elisabeth Haas, MPH§, Sarah E. Valway, DMD, MPHDagger , Kathleen S. Moser, MD, MPH§, and Ida M. Onorato, MDDagger
Objective. To identify factors contributing to a 400% increase in tuberculosis among children in San Diego County, California, from 1985 to 1993.
Design. Review of medical records of reported cases in 1989, 1991, and 1993 and their source case.
Results. Of 192 children with tuberculosis, the largest increase was observed in children younger than 5 years old, of whom 77.4% were born in the United States, 67.8% had a foreign-born parent, 73.1% came from a non-English-speaking household, and 46.2% were known to visit Mexico. Of 28 source cases, 82.1% were born outside the United States, primarily in Mexico (67.9%). Resistance to at least one first-line antituberculous drug was identified in 27.5% of isolates from children and in 33.3% of isolates from source cases.
Conclusions. The increase in tuberculosis and high level of drug-resistance among children born in the United States may be attributed to transmission outside of the United States or within the United States from household contacts born in countries in which tuberculosis is highly endemic. Key words: tuberculosis, children, border health, drug-resistant tuberculosis, immigration.
Objective. To identify factors contributing to a 400% increase in tuberculosis among children in San Diego County, California, from 1985 to 1993.
Design. Review of medical records of reported cases in 1989, 1991, and 1993 and their source case.
Results. Of 192 children with tuberculosis, the largest increase was observed in children younger than 5 years old, of whom 77.4% were born in the United States, 67.8% had a foreign-born parent, 73.1% came from a non-English-speaking household, and 46.2% were known to visit Mexico. Of 28 source cases, 82.1% were born outside the United States, primarily in Mexico (67.9%). Resistance to at least one first-line antituberculous drug was identified in 27.5% of isolates from children and in 33.3% of isolates from source cases.
Conclusions. The increase in tuberculosis and high level of drug-resistance among children born in the United States may be attributed to transmission outside of the United States or within the United States from household contacts born in countries in which tuberculosis is highly endemic. Key words: tuberculosis, children, border health, drug-resistant tuberculosis, immigration.
I'm not the originator, but I have them-- stand by...
Just spreading the disease that Americans won’t. :)
I am surprised about one thing on those charts: New Mexico has a very small number of illegals? Doesn’t look like it’s a destination for people right on the border.
Golly Gee, I thought that spp.gov agreement Bush set up with Canada and Mexico was wanting to promote better health for all. You mean they lied?
I guess they just wanted to share the disease and misery to make all three countries in equal peril of disease.
Helps the drug companies too. Now they have many more years and a real need to find and concoct more drugs to sell to the newly infected American people.
Why the heck did we stop testing kids for tb??? For decades after we stopped testing kids annually at the start of the school year we were required to have our GOATS tested annually! I don’t know how it is now since we no longer have goats, but obviously the kids don’t get tested.
The test didn’t require a costly lab report. It is a little skin test that is administered one day and then read about three days later. If there is a red bump of a certain size at the test site, further testing is necessary.
ping to me for later.
Next time you are in a McDonald’s, or any other fast-food restaurant, ask yourself, does the person serving me my food have TB.
Microorganisms are ubiquitous. We can’t be afraid. Just wash your hands thoroughly before handling your food. My family washes our hands when we come into the house and use bleach, alcohol and spray lysol on door knobs, toilet handles...etc. Hand sanitizers do not kill as many germs as you think. Last semester we grew E. coli in agar plates and placed paper tabs soaked in bleach, alcohol, Purell and Listerine. The E. coli growth was only supressed by the bleach and alcohol.
Do not forget working in people's homes as maids or nannies.
“Someone here on FR produced a few U.S. maps of illegal alien demographics and TB infection rates. Comparing the maps visually made it clear that there’s an obvious correspondence between TB outbreaks and the communities in which illegals settle. Wish I could remember who was posting those”
Might be AuntB ....
The drug companies do not want to create cures for diseases that most American don’t have. They know that sick people outside of the USA don’t have the cash to fund research into treatments. Importing pestilence is the only way to guarantee that there will be sufficient number of sick Americans to made drug development economically feasible. /sarc
Excellent graphics. Thanks for posting them.
You can thank lax border enforcement for a lot of it.
The percentage of illegals in NM may be high, but that map is indicating total numbers of them, which might be lower than the other regions by a significant margin. Isn’t it a desert, anyway?
“Do not forget working in people’s homes as maids or nannies.”
No one should be allowed to work in your home unless they have a doctor’s report showing they have been tested for TB. And you should choose the doctor, because illegals can buy any documents on the street for ten bucks.
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