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Immigration Crisis: Tuberculosis Spreading at Camps
Fox News ^ | Monday, July 7, 2014 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 07/07/2014 9:27:49 AM PDT by kristinn

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seems to think the children coming across the southern border are remarkably healthy. It's a sentiment shared by BCFS -- the Texas-based agency formerly known as Baptist Child & Family Services contracted to run camps at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

More than 7,000 children have been processed through the two camps, according to a BCFS official. They allege that only 119 children have been treated for lice, 22 for scabies, and one for the H1N1 Flu. BCFS says the most common illnesses seen at Lackland are fever, headache, upper respiratory cold and ingrown toenails.

However, at least a half dozen anonymous sources, including nurses and health care providers who worked at Lackland, allege that the government is covering up what they believe to be a very serious health threat.

Several of my sources tell me that tuberculosis has become a dangerous issue at both the border and the camps.

"The amount of tuberculosis is astonishing," one health care provider told me. "The nurses are telling us the kids are really sick. The tuberculosis is definitely there."

Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner David Lakey, M.D. says state health officials have seen only three cases of tuberculosis, the Associated Press reports. One of my sources with close ties to the Texas HHS tells me all three cases were reported in Austin.

However, nurses at Lackland in San Antonio, said they know of at least four teenagers in their camp who have tuberculosis.

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My source said there are children showing classic tuberculosis symptoms -- spitting up blood, a constant cough and chest pain.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: alien; aliens; amnesty; childillegals; contagion; disease; illegalsinvasion; immigration; obamaillegals; orchestratedcrisis; secureourborders; tb; tuberculosis
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To: Dick Bachert

Looks like we are taking in the Frito Bandito wannabes. Seriously, the dumb electorate in this country has elected criminals to office.


21 posted on 07/07/2014 10:19:19 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: apoxonu

I am a doctor and the bacteria causing necrotizing fasciitis are all around. They have nothing to do with immigration. The infection is usually started because of a defect in the immune system of the host. Usually diabetes or folks with transplants on multiple immune suppressing drugs.

Im not afraid of the common bacteria they are bringing in. What scared me is the resistant TB, tropical illnesses such as dengue that we do not commonly see here and may be difficult to diagnose, and really fun things like ebola. There is plenty of reason to be alarmed, but routine bacteria is not one of them


22 posted on 07/07/2014 10:20:44 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Dick Bachert
bump for later
23 posted on 07/07/2014 10:42:24 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: kristinn

Obama should make visits to them all.


24 posted on 07/07/2014 10:50:24 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Nowhere Man

I think they are part of an MS13 gang. Not good people to have here in America.


25 posted on 07/07/2014 10:54:25 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: kristinn

I’ve considered this. It is the truth as I know it based on experience but I am not an expert in infectious diseases.

You can check me here on TB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis

TB is often not curable, only treatable. NO matter the strain it is a devastating disease that seems to never completely go away and thus the reason our society considered it such a scourge and wanted rid of it any way possible.

Also, you can be infected and not present symptoms at all or until later. Even if not sick you can be a cursed carrier for the rest of your life and may have a ticking time bomb living within you.

We have people that have been exposed on airplanes returning from Africa. NHS amazed me how fast they tracked them down and tested them. They must be tested for active TB on some frequency for the rest of their lives.

It is a serious disease and worse for a population that has not been exposed.

FRiends... I believe this a huge national disaster in the making. Protect your children. Know who they are with in school with and whom they are exposed to. We are living with a delayed reaction since school is not in session. Wait for it and watch carefully. This is not something to mess around with.

Under normal conditions NHS would track these disease carriers down and isolate them and monitor them for a long time. These children will probably cease to exist when they are released. They are illegal and without papers, a past or a future. They will vanish and our privacy laws will keep them hidden.

I think our food supply may also be in danger. Chickens in particular. Most workers in the poultry industry, from the growing houses to the processing, are from Central America. They have jobs and will take these kids in and the diseases they have can spread to the food supply. Sure, you can cook the chicken well but you can’t prevent the spread of disease to the production houses. If one growing house is infected the infection can spread to an entire production region pretty quickly. Growers are terrified of an outbreak since it can wipe out an entire area of poultry production and do it for a long time. Growers try and do prevent the spread of disease in the birds. Workers are to take showers between growing houses but many don’t. FDA has more green card vets than real Americans and they have their knives out to shut down the US poultry industry.

Chickens are particularly susceptible to respiratory infection because they have plural sacks instead of real lungs and because of that they do not fully exhale so microbes are retained longer and once infection begins it is usually fatal. Thankfully, many human diseases do not cross to other species but some do.

Obastard is making all of us play with fire and we are all going to get burned... badly I fear.


26 posted on 07/07/2014 10:54:42 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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Time for some Constitutional rebellion within the ranks of the Fed... this is insanity.


27 posted on 07/07/2014 10:56:23 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Mom MD

I wonder if all these “special” things are the reason obastard is not going for a visit to hug and kiss them?

Maybe we can encourage at least some politicians to visit them and get close.

TB scares the dickens out of me.


28 posted on 07/07/2014 10:57:25 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Mom MD

I suggest mass initial delousing. There must be some Agent Orange in storage from the Vietnam war days.


29 posted on 07/07/2014 11:04:28 AM PDT by hdstmf
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To: Dick Bachert
A Benetton clothing ad...heh...
30 posted on 07/07/2014 11:15:21 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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To: kristinn

It will spread far beyond the camps.

Disease and pestilence, thy name is Obama


31 posted on 07/07/2014 11:16:08 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
"The governors should arrest the bus drivers and pilots moving these kids around for human trafficking and endangering the public health"

I read an article that said TB in children is most difficult to screen for. In other words -it doesn't always show up at first in the screening. Moving these kids around to other areas of the country is just totally insane. TB needs to be contained and treated, not spread around throughout the population.

The kids are being shipped to other cities "to be procesed"-so have they even been screened at all, before moving them?

Why don't the states experiencing an overflow of illegals declare a state of emergency, call in the Guard, and put up tent facilities exc.. to take care of them where they are, then send them back to their home countries ASAP?

Another completely outrageous thing I read about, if it's true, is that these kids are being turned over to total strangers, with no proof that they are a relatve of the child? That's crazy!

None of this makes any sense. Something is wrong with the whole thing.

32 posted on 07/07/2014 11:22:18 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.??)
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To: kristinn

I’m shocked


33 posted on 07/07/2014 11:41:04 AM PDT by dervish (petbully lover)
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To: Pajamajan
Something is wrong with the whole thing.

Yes. Very wrong.

34 posted on 07/07/2014 12:05:26 PM PDT by polymuser
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To: Pajamajan

TB aint a joke either. You don’t want it.


35 posted on 07/07/2014 12:06:39 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: kristinn

A FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN
= = = = = = = = = = = =
Never, in the history of this great country has the saying
A FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN
been so meaningful or truthful.


36 posted on 07/07/2014 12:27:00 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Better to keep your enemies inside peeing out, rather than keep them outside, peeing in.".)
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To: Pajamajan

so have they even been screened at all, before moving them?
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NO that’s one of the mayor problems...

the government officials don’t know who or what the illegal aliens are or might be or what diseases they have until they get to the processing place..


37 posted on 07/07/2014 2:14:33 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: apoxonu; Mom MD
I did three years of grad school in a scientific field overlapping with human medicine and, more importantly, can think critically and discern truth and fiction fairly astutely. 25 years of experience following.

Not sure you can call rank on me.

If you want an MD's opinion look at #22.

BTW, I was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis some years ago.

Unsanitary conditions had nothing to do with the infection; neither did illegal immigrants (there were very few if any in this area at that time). Etiology was unknown.

38 posted on 07/07/2014 2:24:35 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Gaffer
As mentioned in #38 I am personally quite familiar with awful dermatological conditions.

Let me know when someone catches necrotizing fasciitis from one of these border kids.

39 posted on 07/07/2014 2:27:40 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: steve86

So you’re definitely saying the link I gave you is BS.


40 posted on 07/07/2014 4:56:59 PM PDT by Gaffer
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