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Besides TB, other respiratory diseases, and a potential Ebola outbreak, unscreened and non-quarantined illegal aliens can bring in diseases that can be spread through contact with unvaccinated children and infected individuals who do not wash their hands after using the bathroom or who discard used toilet tissue with fecal matter into waste baskets instead of flushing them.

- Poliomyelitis (viral infection spread through the fecal-oral route)
- Norovirus acute gastroenteritis (spread through food and water contaminated by fecal matter)
- Giardiasis (a parasite transmitted via the fecal-oral route)
- Hepatitis A (a virus spread by eating or drinking water contaminated with infected feces)
- Hepatitis E (fecal oral transmission route)
- Rotavirus (vaccination can prevent it in infants; it is contagious especially in infants and children)
- Typhoid fever (caused by bacteria Salmonella; sick people and carriers have the bacteria in the digestive tract and in their feces; travelers are advised to be careful when going abroad)
- Shigellosis or bacillary dysentery (caused by the Shigella bacteria spread through the fecal-oral route)
- Cholera (an infection of the bacterium vibrio cholera which is transmitted through food and water contaminated with feces)
- Cryptosporidiosis (a protozoan parasite spread through the fecal-oral route)
- Ascariasis (round worm infection in young children, prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions where sanitation and hygiene are poor; not common in the U.S.)