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To: Tzimisce

Impacts of Illegal Immigration: Diseases

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.

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.

http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_diseases.html


9 posted on 11/10/2013 8:28:27 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

I grew up with all of these diseases.

Quarantine notices were on front doors at one time or another and those addresses were read aloud in the schools.

Tough times !

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15 posted on 11/10/2013 8:34:11 AM PST by Mears (Liberalism is the art of being easily offended.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

In the 1990s, 40% of the population of China carried TB; that number probably hasn’t improved with age, other than the deaths of the most serious cases. Hepatitis can be encountered, and most healthy people will clear the infection just via their immune systems, in which case it would only be diagnosed by accident. C used to be called “non-A, non-B”, eventually got identified; the D and E strains are similarly new ones, and rare.

Hepatitis A and B Vaccines
http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/hepatitis-a-and-b-vaccines

Vaccines to Prevent Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B
http://www.cdc.gov/idu/hepatitis/vaccines.pdf

That’s interesting about Leprosy, apparently there’s a vaccine for it now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy#Prevention


72 posted on 11/10/2013 11:52:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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