Posted on 11/30/2018 7:47:20 PM PST by Coleus
If wrecking American sovereignty, lowering wages, and increasing the public welfare load aren’t reasons enough to oppose the influx of migrant invaders sitting in Tijuana, here is another: At least 30 percent of them are sick with communicable diseases they might spread to Americans in schools, hospitals, welfare and employment offices, and other public places.
And by “sick,” officials in Mexico don’t mean the common cold. They mean serious disease. Some of the migrants are turning around and heading home after months of traveling through Mexico, as The New American reported today. But with a third of the 6,000 or so in Tijuana coughing and breaking out in blisters, now is not the time for the Trump administration to weaken.
AIDS, TB, and Chickenpox
That’s because the diseases many of the migrants carry are deadly — or can be. “Out of 6,000 migrants currently residing in the city, over a third of them (2,267) are being treated for health-related issues,” Fox News reported. So far, officials have confirmed three cases of tuberculosis, four cases of AIDS, and four separate cases of chickenpox, the network reported. Even worse, they’ve also brought in bugs. Real bugs. At least 101, Fox reported, carry lice and “skin infections.”
That means the migrants might well start a typhus epidemic or bring in chagas disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the body louse is the vector for the typhus bacterium, Rickettsia prowazekii.
“Epidemic typhus is spread to people through contact with infected body lice,” CDC says. It noted the disease is uncommon these days, although “epidemic typhus was responsible for millions of deaths in previous centuries.” But cases continue to occur, in areas where extreme overcrowding is common and body lice can travel from one person to another.” The Benito Juarez Sports Complex, where the migrants are housed, is one such overcrowded area: 6,000 are packed into an area meant for 1,000. Chagas is another of the many benefits the migrants might bring. And unlike louse-borne typhus, chagas is not rare. It’s epidemic in Latin America.
Blood-scuking triatomine bugs cause the disease:
These blood-sucking bugs get infected by biting an infected animal or person. Once infected, the bugs pass T. cruzi parasites in their feces. The bugs are found in houses made from materials such as mud, adobe, straw, and palm thatch. During the day, the bugs hide in crevices in the walls and roofs. During the night, when the inhabitants are sleeping, the bugs emerge. Because they tend to feed on people’s faces, triatomine bugs are also known as “kissing bugs.”
Some eight million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America have it, and most don’t know it. Officials also worry about a hepatitis outbreak because of the filth in the Benito Juarez Sports Complex. “The location also has only 35 portable bathrooms,” Fox reported. “A sign reading ‘No Spitting’ was put up, as coughing and spitting by migrants are rampant in the shelter.”
Multi-Drug Resistant TB
Particularly worrisome is how many of the migrants carry a particularly virulent form of TB that is resistant to multiple antibiotics. Frightening data appeared in a paper published last year by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. It reported that 37,684 immigrants with TB entered the United States between 2005 and 2009. The most, 24.1 percent, or 9,098, came from Mexico. Another 1,154, or 3.1 percent, came from Guatemala, while 853, or 2.3 percent, came from Honduras, where the migrant invasion began.
But that’s TB generally. Of more concern are the multi-drug resistant cases that came in: 482. Again, Mexico accounted for most of those: 66 or 13.7 percent. Fourteen Guatemalans had the disease, accounting for about three percent. None, apparently, came from Honduras. MDR TB is a pressing concern, CDC reports, because “it is resistant to ... the two most potent TB drugs ... used to treat all persons with TB.”
Another 2,000 migrants are headed for Tijuana. They will pack the sports complex even tighter. If the 33-percent figure for sick migrants in Tijuana now holds true for those on the way, the town will be faced with another 660 very sick people. Question: Is the United States expected to permit the entry of nearly 3,000 sick people, and if so, who will pay to treat their myriad diseases?
Don’t forget the mysterious polio-like virus that has afflicted Americans the last few years, (mostly children) that the CDC finally let the media report...there is NO CURE
Parasites with parasites . Who knew?
.....”The Congo regions of Africa are experiencing a new break out of this dreaded disease (Ebola)......
It’s been several months when that first began again. Last I read it’s still not being contained. And you’re right the Africans won’t listen nor do as needed.
These people from S.America don’t appear to be any wiser.... a lot of superstitions in these groups and inability to reason more than they want into the US.
Good question. If we want to be charitable we could offer to send medical teams and supplies to assist Mexico. In Mexico.
Here is an idea: Welcome them all into a processing center where they will all be given free flights to Brussels or some EU country condemning us for protecting our sovereignty. Yeah, might cost a bit, but let Brussels and the EU deal with the invaders. It will cost less than dealing with the problems these invaders will bring here.
/Know some President Trump people lurk here. This is not a joke. Do it.
How many times were they told to turn around and go back home? Now their future looks like a mass grave.
That’s actually quite funny to contemplate in light of having read This is Your brain on Parasites. An incredible book revealing that parasites do a lot of neurological things to hosts which then make them assist the parasites.
Oh, to add: any immigrant with a legitimate claim for asylum or who has abided by the rules for immigration, we should welcome them with open arms!
Always remember that the Black Plague came ashore in San Francisco from China in the mid 1800s when the city fathers refused to believe plague was in the city, till it was too late. Same for Cholera and Yellow Fever in other areas.
So if we send them all to SF the problem will be solved for the city? The over population problem I mean.
Is it 2500, is it one third of the group, is it half of the group. The number keeps changing. What to believe?
The best thing for these people is to be in their own homes where they can recover. It would be the best thing for all.’
Some government entity, charitable entity or just compassionate people, please provide the transportation to take them.
Whoever organized this caravan crap should be shot, or in the least put in jail as all those people didn’t come together on their own to form this caravan.
2,500 now. Next week 5,000. Not to mention the people of Tijuana. How many of them will become infected? And libs are still whining about how white settlers infected native Americans with small pox and other communicable diseases. Same thing is happening right now with the UN’s blessing.
Bus them to Malibu.
2,500 now. Next week 5,000. Not to mention the people who live in Tijuana. How many of them will become infected? And libs are still whining about how white settlers infected native Americans with small pox and other communicable diseases. Same thing is happening right now with the UN’s blessing.
Had there been no caravan, but just a hundred or so sneeking in everyday, business as usual, they would all be staying at the Uncle Sugar hotel right now.
Mexico’s problem.
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