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Bush Gives Mexico's Fox Concession on Borders
Thanks George. We really need more deadly diseases. This will help.



Immigration's Silent Invasion, Deadly Consequences

The invasion of illegal aliens pouring over the borders of the United States is taking an ominous turn. They are not alone! Their bodies may carry Hepatitis A, B & C, tuberculosis, leprosy and Chagas Disease. Chagas is a nasty parasitic bug common in Latin America where 18 million people are infected and 50,000 deaths occur annually.

Illegal aliens, by avoiding health screenings at U.S. borders, carry TB, the most serious being MDR, a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis—with a higher death rate than cancer. MDR-TB occurs when Mycobacterium tuberculosis becomes resistant to at least Isoniazid and Rifampin—the two most powerful TB drugs. According to the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002 update, "Ordinary TB requires a six-month regimen of four drugs for cure. MDR-TB requires up to two years of treatment with a complex regimen of much more expensive drugs to which the patient's TB bacteria are susceptible."

Many of these drugs have toxic side effects. A patient with MDR-TB will infect others with MDR-TB--not ordinary TB. "It has been called "Ebola with Wings," in the chilling book: 'TIME BOMB: THE GLOBAL EPIDEMIC OF MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS', by Lee B. Reighmann, M.D., M.P.H.

According to the New York Academy of Sciences, Update, January, 2002, "TB bacteria readily fly through the air, as when an afflicted person coughs. It's estimated that each victim will infect 10, 20 or more people--in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential 'time bomb' effect."

To make matters worse, in excess of 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the USA in the past three years. Hansen's Disease (leprosy) is now endemic to the Northeastern United States for the first time ever. Ironically, because of First World personal hygiene and sanitation practiced in America, leprosy affected only 900 people in the previous 40 years. However, illegal alien immigrants from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and up through Mexico have fueled the resurgence into the United States.

Chagas, called the kissing bug disease because the parasite favors the face as a route of infection, comes in acute and chronic forms, which can damage your heart and intestines. This parasite now threatens our blood supply, yet no means to test the blood is currently available. Ironically the public health community has been aware of this danger for years. "Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected, experts say, and there is no effective treatment for them. After a decade, 10 to 30 percent of them will die when their hearts or intestines, weakened by the disease, explode," according to a New York Times story, November 18, 2003 by Donald G. McNeil, Jr. Three people received Chagas infected organs in 2001, the first such cases reported in the United States ever! Two of those three died.

Dengue Fever, reports of polio, and now, the first case of malaria in Texas trickle into the United States as the invasion of illegal aliens increases in numbers.

Undiagnosed disease due to uncontrolled illegal immigration is not confined to the Border States. This health care crisis spreads daily across the nation. In 2002, Northern Virginia reported a 17 % increase in tuberculosis cases. Prince William County alone reported a staggering 188 % over the previous year. Health officials link immigrants to this outbreak and credit them with introducing the drug resistant strains. In 2001 Marion County experienced an outbreak of Multi-Drug Resistant TB, which was investigated by the Indiana University School of Medicine. Their findings? Mexican Nationals, i.e., illegal aliens, had flooded into the area causing the outbreak.

In Queens, New York the health department found that 81% of new TB cases in 2001 were "immigrants". The CDC reports that last year one-half of all new TB cases were attributed to foreign born people, who have an eight times higher incidence of TB. "Health officials state the rise of TB is largely a consequence of the migration of people from parts of the world where the disease is common. It is thought that two-thirds of the cases of TB brought into the United States originated in three countries: Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam. Recent outbreaks include Portland, Maine, Del Ray Beach, Florida and Michigan.

In 1999, a health advisory was issued due to a Dengue Fever outbreak along the Mexico (Nuevo Laredo)/ Texas—(Webb County) border. Though not usually fatal, there is a more serious strain called dengue hemorrhagic fever, which CAN kill you.

It gets worse. The U.S. government, which is sworn to protect American citizens, is in reality, aiding and abetting this health care crisis. Quoting a Fox News Report from April 4, 2003, Miguel, an illegal alien who worked construction on a subway renovation project for months, was able to change his status to legal permanent alien. Unfortunately, Miguel was infected with tuberculosis. This did not stop the federal government from issuing Miguel a health waiver under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a waiver that permits him a green card, even though his disease made him inadmissible for the waiver. Miguel is now legally free to move about the country—and is, at this moment.

What does this mean to American citizens? Does it take the immediacy of a SARS or tuberculosis epidemic to force our Congress and president into action? After the fact? After the deaths of dozens or thousands of innocent citizens? What does it require for them to take action as this 'silent invasion' crosses into our country? Our borders are as porous today as they were on 9/11. But this terror is a silent invasion--a deadly, growing, ticking 'Time Bomb'.

It means your children are at risk when attending school or going to the movies. It means that when a classmate from a foreign country sneezes or coughs, your child may be at risk for any number of diseases. If you eat at a fast food restaurant, a person infected with hepatitis could prepare your food. If you need a blood transfusion, the blood could be infected with Chagas Disease.

What can you do? You may visit the principal of your school and insist that every child pass a complete health screening, especially for tuberculosis and hepatitis. You may ask local health inspectors to check restaurants in your community to see that all employees are legal residents or American citizens and have been health screened. For all these undetectable diseases, you may call your senator or representative, 800-648-3516 and demand they secure the U.S. border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration by whatever means you deem necessary, i.e., US troops, National Guardsmen, mass deportations and arrests of employers who hire illegal aliens. Make the punishment worse than their profit.

(Source: MichNews)

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NMSU Researcher Tests for Hantavirus Along the Border
Lyn Votava

A New Mexico State University researcher is currently testing area residents and Mexican migrant workers for possible exposure to hantavirus, the rodent-borne disease that caused quite a stir with its discovery in New Mexico in the summer of 1993. Colleen Jonsson, a biochemistry professor, is working with a team of students to conduct the tests, which will continue through August in several southern New Mexico counties and in El Paso.

Jonsson's research has a two-fold objective. "We are trying to find the sero prevalence, or the rate of hantavirus exposure in the population. We are also trying to understand how the virus replicates in the cell," she explains.

Tests include a blood sample and completion of a health survey, which Jonsson's bilingual team has been conducting all summer. The team has completed more than half of the 500 tests Jonsson plans to complete before compiling the results, to be released this fall. In addition to discovering the prevalence of hantavirus in the area, Jonsson hopes to use the survey results to establish a baseline of health in southern New Mexico.

The virus is nontransmissible among humans but can be spread to people through contact with rodent feces. Thus, people may come in contact with the disease anywhere that they may come in contact with mice. "It could be while cleaning out a food storage bin, while gardening, while cleaning out a summer home," Jonsson says. Persons can protect themselves from exposure to the disease by wearing rubber gloves while cleaning and by using a bleach-water cleaning solution.

The hanta virus pulmonary syndrome was first detected during an outbreak of the disease on Navajo reservations in New Mexico and Arizona. Researchers have attributed this early outbreak to an increase in the deer mouse population caused by unusually heavy rains and an abundance of forage.

Though first identified in the Southwest, the disease has since been confirmed throughout the country. It is marked by fluid buildup in the lungs, which can lead to respiratory failure. Of the 133 confirmed cases of the hantavirus in the United States, about half have proven fatal. A long-term goal of the research is finding a cure, Jonsson says.

Jonsson expects to find that one out of every 100 persons has been exposed to the disease, which would mirror findings of research conducted in northern New Mexico by researchers at the University of New Mexico and the Santa Fe Public Health office.

Jonsson's research, currently funded by the New Mexico Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, may be extended to the next few years, depending on funding and results from this year's study. "The numbers of cases have fallen off since 1993," she says, "but this may be a problem for the next 20 years." Source: Las Cruces Sun-News

http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/old_1996/jul96/hantavirus.html

How Dangerous is Hantavirus?

Have fun on your trip, and don't worry about hantavirus. You have a much better chance of getting hit by a bus while crossing the street.
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NEW WORLD HANTAVIRUS and HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME

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2 : a set of concurrent things (as emotions or actions) that usually form an identifiable pattern
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In 1993, a previously unknown infectious disease agent was discovered by a task force of scientists in New Mexico.
This disease agent occurs naturally throughout most of North and South America; it is airborne, and in the absence of prompt medical attention, its infections are usually fatal.

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