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Tijuana Health Officials: More Than One-Third of Caravan Riders Have Infectious Diseases
Townhall.com ^ | November 29, 2018 | Beth Bauman

Posted on 11/29/2018 7:13:28 PM PST by Kaslin

According to the Tijuana Health Department, more than one-third of those who rode the caravan from Central America are being treated for an illness. Out of the 6,000 illegal aliens who are currently in Tijuana, 2,267 of them are are ill. Diseases include respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox and other more serious conditions, Fox News reported. 

The Tijuana Health Department spokesperson who spoke with Fox News confirmed that there are:
• Three confirmed cases of tuberculosis.
• Four cases of HIV/AIDS.
• Four separate cases of chickenpox.
• At least 101 have lice.
• Multiple skin infections.

The department is also warning about a potential Hepatitis outbreak because the caravan riders are living in unsanitary conditions. Part of that is because thousands of the illegal aliens are being housed at the Benito Juarez Sports Complex near the San Ysidro United States-Mexico Port of Entry. The shelter is only designed to hold 1,000 people and has 35 port-a-potties for them.

"People aren't able to take showers, they sleep on the floor, nobody is cleaning the bathrooms, so the conditions are there for a major infection,' Carlos Betanzos, a coordinator for Ministerios Nazarenos de Compasión, an Evangelical aid group, told The Daily Mail. "We've had lung disease, flu, diarrhea, hypertension. One guy yesterday had chicken pox - but thankfully just one."

Betanzos said their main concern right now is the flu, which is likely to spread amongst the group because colder temperatures and rain are beginning to set in.

"The main danger is flu because it's getting colder and it's going to rain. If there is chicken pox it will be impossible to stop, it could infect thousands. f nothing changes it's a case of when, not if, there is a major outbreak of disease," Betanzos explained. "I would love to say there will not be deaths here, but it can happen because there are not enough doctors and medicine. The government was not ready for this many people."

The living conditions are unbearable, which is causing some of the caravan riders to self-deport. Around 80 self-deported on Tuesday alone. Mexican officials did deport 98 people who were involved in the border clash with Border Patrol on Sunday. 

Clara Daniela, 17, and her boyfriend, Jose Hernandez, 25, fled El Salvador when Daniela's cousin was killed for not joining a gang. They brought along their one-year-old Fernando.

According to the Tijuana Health Department, more than one-third of those who rode the caravan from Central America are being treated for an illness. Out of the 6,000 illegal aliens who are currently in Tijuana, 2,267 of them are are ill. Diseases include respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox and other more serious conditions, Fox News reported. 

The Tijuana Health Department spokesperson who spoke with Fox News confirmed that there are:
• Three confirmed cases of tuberculosis.
• Four cases of HIV/AIDS.
• Four separate cases of chickenpox.
• At least 101 have lice.
• Multiple skin infections.

The department is also warning about a potential Hepatitis outbreak because the caravan riders are living in unsanitary conditions. Part of that is because thousands of the illegal aliens are being housed at the Benito Juarez Sports Complex near the San Ysidro United States-Mexico Port of Entry. The shelter is only designed to hold 1,000 people and has 35 port-a-potties for them.

"People aren't able to take showers, they sleep on the floor, nobody is cleaning the bathrooms, so the conditions are there for a major infection,' Carlos Betanzos, a coordinator for Ministerios Nazarenos de Compasión, an Evangelical aid group, told The Daily Mail. "We've had lung disease, flu, diarrhea, hypertension. One guy yesterday had chicken pox - but thankfully just one."

Betanzos said their main concern right now is the flu, which is likely to spread amongst the group because colder temperatures and rain are beginning to set in.

"The main danger is flu because it's getting colder and it's going to rain. If there is chicken pox it will be impossible to stop, it could infect thousands. f nothing changes it's a case of when, not if, there is a major outbreak of disease," Betanzos explained. "I would love to say there will not be deaths here, but it can happen because there are not enough doctors and medicine. The government was not ready for this many people."

The living conditions are unbearable, which is causing some of the caravan riders to self-deport. Around 80 self-deported on Tuesday alone. Mexican officials did deport 98 people who were involved in the border clash with Border Patrol on Sunday. 

Clara Daniela, 17, and her boyfriend, Jose Hernandez, 25, fled El Salvador when Daniela's cousin was killed for not joining a gang. They brought along their one-year-old Fernando.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalimigration; invasion; mexico; tijuana
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To: HollyB

POTUS posted a great graphic, on his Instagram, but I cannot get an image link....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxGs_YF-Ph/


21 posted on 11/29/2018 8:53:44 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: HollyB

Where are you getting vid from? News outlets?


22 posted on 11/29/2018 8:54:43 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Kaslin

....” currently in Tijuana, 2,267 of them are are ill”....

Also reported they ALL have lice.


23 posted on 11/29/2018 8:57:28 PM PST by caww
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To: arrogantsob

.....”nobody is cleaning the bathrooms”....

I thought they just wanted to ‘work’....they could start there.


24 posted on 11/29/2018 9:00:10 PM PST by caww
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To: HollyB

Yes put the video up..........


25 posted on 11/29/2018 9:02:26 PM PST by caww
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To: Jane Long
If using firefox, pull up View Page Info. Usually right click with a mouse on the background. There you can go over to media and scan what images are on the page, ie istagram in this case.


26 posted on 11/29/2018 9:02:37 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Jane Long
Here they are cleaning up that building that's 11 miles from the border....


27 posted on 11/29/2018 9:07:31 PM PST by caww
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To: Theoria

Need to size down....


28 posted on 11/29/2018 9:08:24 PM PST by caww
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To: Jane Long
Guarding the area from press until it's ready.


29 posted on 11/29/2018 9:10:52 PM PST by caww
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To: Kaslin

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?tab=comments


30 posted on 11/29/2018 9:13:15 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: Jane Long

OK....it’s an events center 161,000 square feet.... it has five roofed areas that would allow them to house families separately and meet other health and security needs.


31 posted on 11/29/2018 9:13:20 PM PST by caww
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To: Jane Long
I said once it rained the sewage would roll into the area from the toilets, sewage would be everywhere.....so there it is.


32 posted on 11/29/2018 9:15:42 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
moving day.......


33 posted on 11/29/2018 9:18:37 PM PST by caww
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To: Jane Long
Here's the events building they will go....expect the parking area will also be used.

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34 posted on 11/29/2018 9:20:55 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
Should have stayed in his country....


35 posted on 11/29/2018 9:22:27 PM PST by caww
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To: Jane Long; caww

Hell no. I don’t watch the msm. Boots on the ground. There’s an update. The caravan refuse to leave the cess pool by the border to go to the new location. There’s a couple of ‘leaders’ there who are giving instruction to the Hondurans. One is an attorney, but tries to say he’s a reporter. They need to rid of those 2.

This is the video of the camp today. This is the one they don’t want to leave.

https://www.facebook.com/PalomaForTrump/videos/2241343349261205/

This is the new camp 11 miles away they are refusing to go to

https://www.facebook.com/AlfredoAlvarezMX/videos/366503810764271/

You can scroll thru all of their accounts to see who the ‘players’ are. Alfredo’s account is in Spanish. But, you can find a lot of info on Amy Sutton’s and Paloma’s account. Alfredo has informative videos

https://www.facebook.com/1569570298/posts/10212799448612261?sfns=0


36 posted on 11/29/2018 9:25:55 PM PST by HollyB
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To: caww

They don’t want to go


37 posted on 11/29/2018 9:26:21 PM PST by HollyB
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To: caww
Looks like they can sustain a degree of control in this events building they're planning for the illeglesoutside Tijuana and 11 from the border...


38 posted on 11/29/2018 9:26:22 PM PST by caww
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To: HollyB
They'll have no choice but to move.....they've now become ‘infectious’...that makes them a danger to the residents of Tijuana..and the country.
39 posted on 11/29/2018 9:29:34 PM PST by caww
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To: Theoria

Thanks! I will try that, with Firefox, next time.


40 posted on 11/29/2018 9:31:37 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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