A composite risk map for Chagas disease in Texas.
According to Sahotra Sarkar's analysis eleven counties are
at particular risk: Bee, Bexar, Brooks, Cameron, DeWitt,
Goliad, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, and Nueces.
Posted on 10/17/2011 3:54:55 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
PSA ping.
surprised this has not been an issue long before this. chagas has been an illegal alien disease, incurable and here for a long time.
I heard about this back in the mid 90’s no one seemed to care about it back then.
Another reason to put an electrified fence up on the southern border!
Just like AIDS, a politically correct disease that the left was afraid to go for the most effective method of prevention. With AIDs, it was quarantine of infected individuals and those they had sex with. With this, border enforcement would have been the best protection. Protected classes. Ugh.
Do the illegals get the disease in Mexico and travel here or have the bugs come to the U.S. via clothing etc... on the illegal Mexicans?!
That would explain the increased questioning while giving blood recently.
Chagas disease in Texas---wonder if Merck has a vaccine for this? (/snix)
It can also be transmitted in a blood transfusion. I don’t think there is any test now being used to screen blood.
Another big reason to bring back DDT for use in human dwellings.
To make the connection between illegals and Chagas is heartless!!!!
Unremarked also is tuberculosis. Virulent TB is finding its way north as well.
The virulent strain is extremely difficult to cure. sd
These things are the least of the diseases that are coming in on the backs of illegals.
We are going to have an Exodus type plague that hits all of the un-vaccinated children in this country as a result of letting this crap come into the country.
They will truly do a job other Americans wont—kill our kids.
Gee I wonder how it has managed to be transmitted all the way north to Texas...
The bugs are ignoring Ameican laws and crossing the border only when they can attach themselves to a Mexican who is just about to cross the border.
Once the bugs get on this side of the border, do we have to allow in state tuition to its larvae?!
Ask Rick Perry.
Leprosy, brucellosis, tuberculosis, and Entamoeba hystolitica are also increasing as illegal migrants move from across the Rio Grande. Many others.
Changa isn’t an infectious disease {accept through blood transfusions, breast milk, etc)
It’s cause by a parasite associated varity of blood sucking insects.
These insects are moving north due to the warming climate, not because illegal aliens are bringing them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease#Transmission
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