Posted on 04/27/2009 5:31:16 AM PDT by IbJensen
Edited on 04/27/2009 5:56:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union's health commissioner urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to the United States or Mexico due to swine flu.
EU Health Commissioner Andorra Vassiliou met with the EU foreign ministers on the subject as Spain reported the first confirmed case of swine flu in Europe. That was also the first swine flu case outside North America.
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It’s no longer just about Bush bashing. ALL politicians must be held responsible for INEXCUSABLY and PURPOSEFULLY keeping our borders open, including Bush, who should have closed them on 9/12.
Illegal aliens ARE bringing in illnesses that we had eradicated:
Impacts of Illegal Immigration: Diseases
Legal immigrants are required to have medical screening to ensure that they do not bring any contagious diseases into the United States. Illegal aliens are not screened and many are carrying horrific third world diseases that do not belong in the USA. Many of these diseases are highly contagious and will infect citizens that come in contact with an infected illegal alien. This has already happened in restaurants, schools, and police forces.
Malaria was eradicated from the USA in the 1940s but recently there were outbreaks in southern California, New Jersey, New York City, and Houston. Additionally, Malaria tainted blood has been discovered in the blood supply.
Dengue was first recognized in the 1950s, affects most Asian countries and has become a leading cause of death among children in the infected areas. Heretofore unknown in the US, Dengue outbreaks have now occurred in the United States.
Leprosy, a scourge of Biblical days, is caused by a bacillus agent and is now know as Hansen’s Disease. In the 40 years prior to 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the following three years there have been 9,000 cases and most were illegal aliens.
As noted in the article Leprosy in America: new cause for concern by Dr. William Levis, head of the New York Hansen’s Disease Clinic. “It’s creeping into the U.S. ... This is a real phenomenon. It’s a public health threat. New York is endemic now, and nobody’s noticed.” In the same article, Dr. Terry Williams, who runs a Houston-based clinic serving leprosy patients across southern Texas, said that the bulk of the cases treated by his clinic were immigrants. “A lot of our cases are imported,” he said. “We see patients from everywhere—Africa, the Philippines, China, South America.” (emphasis added)
Hepatitis A-E is a viral infection that primarily attacks the liver. In 2004, more than 650 people contacted Hepatitis A at a single Chi-Chi’s Mexican restaurant in Pennsylvania. Four latter died. Hepatitis B is one of the major diseases of mankind and is a serious global public health problem. It is estimated that 2 BILLION people are infected and about one million persons die each year. The new vaccine is only 95% effective in preventing an infection and will not cure a person who already has Hepatitis B, which results in a lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure, and early death. An estimated 1.3 million people in the US are currently infected. No vaccine is currently available to prevent Hepatitis C-E and treatment for chronic Hepatitis C costs about $1,500 per person.
Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 2 million people each year. It is estimated that between 2002 and 2020, approximately 1,000,000,000 people will be newly infected, over 150 million people will get sick, and 36 million will die. TB is a highly contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. Each person with active TB will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year.
The United States currently has one of the lowest rates of TB in the world. Mexico has 10 times the rate of prevalence and many African countries along with Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Indonesia have rates that are 100 – 150 times higher. Making matters worse, a few years ago a Multi-Drug-Resistant (MDR) strain of TB has emerged that is resistant to all standard anti-TB drugs. Treating a single case of MDR TB costs over $250,000 and as much as $1,200,000 per person, and even with treatment about half of the patients with MDR-TB prematurely die.
In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the CDC commented on MDR-TB:
“Evidence of it has surfaced in 38 of 61 California health jurisdictions, and it could ‘threaten the efficacy of TB control efforts,’ Granich said. The infected were said to be four times as likely to die from the disease and twice as likely to transmit the disease to others ... Reluctant to label the infected as ‘illegal’ or even ‘undocumented’ aliens, the report notes that of the 407 known cases of MDR-TB, 84% were ‘foreign-born’ patients, mainly from Mexico and the Philippines who’d been in the U.S. less than five years. The percentage of TB cases among the ‘foreign-born’ jumped from 29% in 1993 to 53% as of last year.”
Recently, there was a TB Outbreak In Oklahoma City in a hospital affecting thousands.
Hopefully, this will not be the new extensively drug-resistant XDR strain just being brought in by illegal aliens (now 4% of US cases) and which is currently impossible to cure at any cost. In any case, it would not be surprising to find that the source of the outbreak is an illegal alien working in the hospital or an infected resident worker who became infected through contact with an infected illegal alien since the TB rate for residents in the USA is very low.
For more information on TB and the link to illegal aliens, see:
* Is CDC covering up skyrocketing TB rate?
* Immigration helps diseases spread in Valley
* Mayor favors tougher stance against illegals.
Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), endemic to South and Central America, is spread by infected triatomine bugs, known as the “kissing bugs,” that bite people. It was unknown in the United States until fairly recently. It is now estimated that between 100,000 and 500,000 people in the US have Chagas Disease. Who is infected? Mostly illegal aliens.
Since Chagas Disease is basically unknown outside of the illegal alien community most doctors won’t recognize it and the blood supply just started being screened for it. Most cases of Chagas Disease that occur in patients other than illegal aliens are thought to be contracted from tainted blood – blood sold by illegal aliens with Chagas Disease before the blood supply started being tested for it as of August of 2006.
HIV The number of illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants with HIV or AIDS is unknown, mostly because researchers rarely ask about immigration status. However, it is known that the rate of HIV infection among Latino women in California is about twice the rate of white women. At one free California health clinic, all of the women have HIV or AIDS. Most are Mexican or Central American “immigrants.”....
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_diseases.html
It just seems silly to try and pin the swine flu outbreak on President Bush. He is not the president anymore and this has popped up in the last couple of weeks. It seems like gratuitous bashing for bashing’s sake.
BUMP
“Hey folks...get a grip....traffic accidents account for 42000 deaths per year....that is 115 per day...”
I agree. Too early to even think about panicking. Mexico City has 20 to 30 million residents; around 100 have died. Heck, probably at least that many died from the drug lords. Lets not run for the hills just yet.
...but sooner or later it will reach the whole planet.World
OK.
Würdest du mir jetzt bitte meine erste Frage beantworten warum du glaubst das eine geschlossene Grenze die Ausbreitung verhindert hätte?
Now please answer this in PERFECT german.
Actually, you are wrong. Unless you qurantine the USA which is probably what an isolationist wants, There is enough travel to and from Mexico to allow transmission of a disease.
There is no evidence to date that the problem is anything but a news seller.
Drivel......
NO
Do you support amnesty for those who entered the nation dishonestly?
NO
Are either of the above the cause of swine flu epidemic
NO
Is this a silly thread?
YES
You would think our Muslim president would be concerned about a disease that comes from a pig. Unless of course he thinks only bacon and ham eaters can contract it.
I wonder if his wife eats pork?
I just got back from a very nice trip to Chile.
NO
No, it’s all those illegal aliens walking across the Atlantic to Spain.
Gads. People here are so obssessed by their hatred of Mexico that they are not looking at the real problem, which is that this flu apparently started in a tourist area (personally, I think it was terrorism) and has been almost instantly spread across the globe by air travelers. Still, I don’t think this one is going to end up being more serious than any other flu, and I don’t think it’s the end of the world.
But I think it is a warning to put in better international health screening and notification procedures. I also think that airlines and airports should look at better ventilation and disease control procedures. Being locked up in a flying can for several hours, breathing everybody else’s recirculated viruses, is just a design for trouble. A few years ago, the airlines cut back on the amount of fresh air they took in because it reduced fuel efficiency, and I think some of these procedures should be reexamined now.
Don’t travel to the US. That would make us the safest we’ve been in decades.
No, it can slow it very significantly if restrictions are started soon enough. It can be a case of, if this is determined to be a deadly virus a week or two from now, whether the virus is in a few dozen US communities, or a few hundred, or a few thousand.
And, if this is a deadly flu such as 1918, very severe travel restrictions within the US would be necessary for a period of time.
But our gov't is frittering away the time when the virus' presence in the US could be limited. It's probably not an extremely deadly virus, but there are enough indications that it could be that it's stupid to not restrict travel until more is known.
If this should be a real killer flu, man, will the actions not taken this week be discussed forever, far more than Katrina.
I can just see all those flu Bugs climb over the Fence on our southern Border, getting some nourishment at the watering holes and proceding into our cities to do the “dirty work”.
Another headline should read: “Americans should not travel to Europe”, the Marxist bug is much more dangerous and can infect people, especially those woth a low education or intellect. :)
I can just see all those flu Bugs climb over the Fence on our southern Border, getting some nourishment at the watering holes and proceeding into our cities to do the “dirty work”.
Another headline should read: “Americans should not travel to Europe”, the Marxist bug is much more dangerous and can infect people, especially those woth a low education or intellect. :)
So is my son and daughter-in-law's restaurant in Illinois plus a printer relative doing convention brochures whose incomes are regularly partly derived from overseas travel and convention business.
Many young kids work their way through college through part-time jobs at Disney. My grand-niece did.
We all know someone who's income depends at least peripherally on international "travel" in its many forms.
The upper-echelon swine appointees in the Obama cabinet and administration await the word on what to do about a possible pandemic from the Master himself....while he's out tooling around on his golf cart.
Leni
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