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TB--the silent killer crossing our border
www.foxnews ^ | 11/10/2024 | Betsy McCaughey

Posted on 11/10/2024 6:17:17 PM PST by massmike

Open borders allow deadly narcotics and criminal gangs to invade our country.But there's a silent killer also making its way across the border: tuberculosis.

America's woke public health authorities are more concerned with equity -- redistributing health resources among racial groups -- than with keeping a disease the U.S. once nearly eradicated from becoming a threat again.

Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and continue to rise. More than three quarters of the cases are foreign-born people who picked up the disease in their home countries or traveling through countries with high TB rates. The TB incidence rate is 60 times higher in Haiti than in the U.S.

In New York City -- the No. 1 destination for migrants -- the incidence of TB is two and a half times the national average and still rising.

A staggering 89% of TB patients in the Big Apple are foreign-born. The Flushing/Clearview areas of Queens, Sunset Park, Brooklyn and the Lower East Side of Manhattan are the neighborhoods most affected. The single largest national group with reported TB cases is from China, according to the city's most recent Annual Tuberculosis Summary.

Immigrants who enter the country legally and apply for green cards are screened for TB with the interferon-gamma release assay test. Latent carriers are allowed into the country and referred to a local health department for follow-up treatment. It's voluntary and hit-or-miss but better than no screening at all.

Migrants flooding across the border illegally or entering with Biden's new parole app get no screening. Zip.

The CDC is MIA about screening and isolating the infected before they bring the disease to cities and towns across the country. The agency is forgetting its "Control and Prevention" mission.

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KEYWORDS: aliens; disease; invasion; openborder; sickness; tuberculosis
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1 posted on 11/10/2024 6:17:17 PM PST by massmike
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To: massmike

TB, AIDS Measles... go on and on. Polio may come in as well. We have people flowing from all over the world. They did not get vaccinated. Just think of the VD coming over the border. All the raping done on the way to the border, the sex trafficking. That is coming to America with the disease that shows up in African and Indian and Thailand brothels. This is how you know that vaccines and masks were never important. If they were, they would have secured the border. They don’t care about disease and that is why they don’t secure the border.


2 posted on 11/10/2024 6:28:00 PM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: massmike

Bio Weapon attack?


3 posted on 11/10/2024 6:28:38 PM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: massmike
Then:

Now:

At least the majority of the 2024 voters finally figured out what was going on. But is it too late?

4 posted on 11/10/2024 6:29:40 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: massmike

The same CDC who wanted to (and largely did) lock us in our homes and shoot us full of experimental drugs.

Fire you from your job when you are not sick, but open the gates for 10+ million diseased third world criminals and illiterates. The Democrat’s idea of America.


5 posted on 11/10/2024 6:38:00 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: massmike

TB, or not TB?
That is the question!
Ask our ‘Border Czar’ about it.
I (don’t) think she’ll know.


6 posted on 11/10/2024 6:39:13 PM PST by lee martell
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There was and still is a vaccine for that... They stopped using it in the 70s because it was considered as practically eradicated in North America. Same deal with measles I think. Now both of them are making a big comebacks. Polio will likely be the next one... It's a combination of mixing antivax people with new immigrants from places where vaccinations are either unavailable or shunned by the local population.

"We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm." -- Walter E. Kurtz (from the movie Apocalypse Now)

A lot of crazy stuff like that in these foreign countries, like Pakistan... Where they're trying their best to inoculate the population against polio... I know this will irritate the anti-vaxxers... But lots of vaccines work and they work very well. Thus the practical irradiation of polio and TB in North America. People born before and during the 1970s are fine... Those born after that???

If I were you, I'd be considering getting yourself some shots... Just in case.

7 posted on 11/10/2024 6:45:18 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: massmike

All part of the plan.


8 posted on 11/10/2024 6:48:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: lee martell

TB rhymes with VD...

...and with her it means Very Dumb.


9 posted on 11/10/2024 6:53:03 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zwei !)
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To: lightman

Sad but true. The scariest part of that election season is how close Kammy got to actually winning! Even with the media carrying so much of her water, she could have become the most powerful woman in the known world!

That’s like buying a pantsuit for AOC and calling her Madame Presidente. I can think of no other candidate from either party besides Trump, who would have kept going after having so many roadblocks thrown in your path. This goes beyond age.
Even a younger politician such as our Pal Ron DeSantis (age 46) would probably have quit long before November came around, or his family would have demanded it.


10 posted on 11/10/2024 7:02:41 PM PST by lee martell
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To: massmike

My doctor who is my age, 62 said he had a younger doctor ask his opinion on a case & it was measles. It had been essentially eradicated in the US but with the influx of illegal aliens, they’re seeing more cases.


11 posted on 11/10/2024 7:07:53 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: massmike

Yay us!!!!!


12 posted on 11/10/2024 7:25:14 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: massmike; metmom; Diana in Wisconsin; Liz; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; ...
Awareness : Tuberculosis cases are rising, and is found generally within the illegal international migrant population
Legal migrants are checked and vetted for criminal history, medical conditions, ties to terrorism, and generally have a U.S. sponser.

"Open borders allow deadly narcotics and criminal gangs to invade our country.But there's a silent killer also making its way across the border: tuberculosis."

"America's woke public health authorities are more concerned with equity
-- redistributing health resources among racial groups
-- than with keeping a disease the U.S. once nearly eradicated from becoming a threat again."

"Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and continue to rise.
More than three quarters of the cases are foreign-born people who picked up the disease in their home countries
or traveling through countries with high TB rates.
The TB incidence rate is 60 times higher in Haiti than in the U.S."

"In New York City -- the No. 1 destination for migrants -- the incidence of TB is two and a half times the national average and still rising."

"A staggering 89% of TB patients in the Big Apple are foreign-born.
The Flushing/Clearview areas of Queens, Sunset Park, Brooklyn and the Lower East Side of Manhattan are the neighborhoods most affected.
The single largest national group with reported TB cases is from China, according to the city's most recent Annual Tuberculosis Summary."

'Immigrants who enter the country legally and apply for green cards are screened for TB with the interferon-gamma release assay test.
Latent carriers are allowed into the country and referred to a local health department for follow-up treatment.
It's voluntary and hit-or-miss but better than no screening at all."

"Migrants flooding across the border illegally or entering with Biden's new parole app get no screening." Zip."

13 posted on 11/10/2024 7:49:02 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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Immigrants who enter the country legally and apply for green cards are screened for TB with the interferon-gamma release assay test. Latent carriers are allowed into the country and referred to a local health department for follow-up treatment.

NOT acceptable.

That needs to change NOW.

14 posted on 11/10/2024 7:51:02 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: massmike

And I’ll bet that’s not the only disease either.


15 posted on 11/10/2024 7:51:31 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: thinden

It is an indirect bioweapon attack. There are a lot of diseases that we have eradicated over the years, but by allowing illegals in with no health checks, who knows what diseases they are bringing in.

And they locked us down for covid while the illegals came in with no health checks.


16 posted on 11/10/2024 8:01:44 PM PST by Texas resident (AMF to BHO)
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To: massmike

When I was working as a transcriptionist in a major Phoenix hospital 15 yrs ago, I kept coming across medical reports of patients with TB. They were always illegal immigrants, and I knew that because I could see their insurance info which was affiliated with a federal emergency medical insurance program. One woman in particular came in monthly and had been admitted to other hospitals for an especially virulent form of TB. She kept leaving against medical advice and refused to take her meds. They had to treat her whenever she presented because of EMTALA, but she was non compliant and selfishly out in the community spreading TB like Typhoid Mary, which infuriated me. This was a problem then so I can only imagine how bad it is now.


17 posted on 11/10/2024 9:15:05 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: jerod

I’m not against normal vaccines, but I don’t want anything to do with the mRNA vaccines. I simply don’t trust them because I don’t trust Big Pharma or our govt anymore.


18 posted on 11/10/2024 9:31:09 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: massmike

The bass turds in Washington don’t care. As long as they get a new stash of illegal alien voters.


19 posted on 11/10/2024 10:15:29 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We're taking our country back! You RATS can keep your "Democrazy" and take it when you go.)
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To: Texas resident

It is an indirect bioweapon attack. There are a lot of diseases that we have eradicated over the years, but by allowing illegals in with no health checks, who knows what diseases they are bringing in.

And they locked us down for covid while the illegals came in with no health checks.

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hmmmm. hard to defeat an nation of armed citizens with hundreds of millions of guns......so they attack from another front?


20 posted on 11/11/2024 5:26:57 AM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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