Posted on 11/12/2024 7:25:42 AM PST by SJackson
The biggest infectious disease killer on earth.
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.
TB is no laughing matter. Globally it has just overtaken COVID-19 as the biggest infectious disease killer on earth. There is no effective vaccine for it, but most cases — except severely drug-resistant ones — can be treated with antibiotics, provided they’re taken daily without interruption for several months or longer. Not easy.
Western Europe, Scandinavia and North America are all reporting rising TB rates as migrants from poorer countries — where TB is common — arrive. UK health authorities are alerting the public to the distinctive cough that comes with TB.
In Europe, public health authorities are engaged in a lively debate about how to affordably screen TB carriers and keep them from infecting the local population. Someone can carry latent TB for years, then suddenly, after resettling in a new country, develop active — and highly contagious — TB and spread it by coughing and sneezing.
But in the U.S., the mission-confused CDC is stressing health equity and rushing resources to the “disproportionately affected” groups. That’s fine, but how about also shielding Americans from the reemergence of a disease they’ve largely eliminated? In all the agency’s reports, not a word about what’s causing the surge in TB: an open border.
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.
Take the case of a Chinese migrant with active drug-resistant TB who crossed the border illegally in April. When her symptoms worsened and she was diagnosed on July 23 as “highly positive,” nothing was done to isolate her. Instead, she was shuffled between immigration processing facilities in California and Louisiana, exposing hundreds.
Now Louisiana is suing federal authorities to keep the exposed migrants detained until they are medically cleared. State Attorney General Liz Murrill warns about illegals who are “untested for diseases that can threaten the lives of Louisiana and American citizens.”
Thousands of unaccompanied minors with latent TB are being released into communities across the country, rather than being kept in Health and Human Services shelter facilities for the many months it would take to treat them with a course of antibiotics.
CDC data show a whopping 42% increase in incidence of TB among children ages 5-14 in one year.
On Nov. 1, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) demanded that Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas erect precautions against a disease invasion, warning that TB “is rapidly spreading through the millions of unscreened illegal immigrants released into the interior of the United States.”
The number of reported cases this year — just under 10,000 — is small but the trend is worrisome. The U.S. waged a war against TB in the 20th century and won. Americans shouldn’t have to surrender to this disease now because of open borders.
Pretty sure our ‘betters’ are charged with defend and protect verbiage in their oath of office..... Dereliction of duty? I know it was in the oath I took.
The incidence of drug-resistant TB is also on the rise due to patients failing to complete the prescribed round of antibiotics.
How about we charge these A$$holes with a biological attack on the US
All must be sacrificed for the Revolution.
We had TB Testing trailers in every shopping center when I was growing up and we whipped it out of existence just to have the One World Globalists import millions of people with an incurable version...This alone should be a LIFE SENTENCE for every politician that encouraged the law breaking.
Thank you Bidenskyyyyyyy and Harriz. Bass turds.
Exactly! And don’t forget Mayorkas…..
Before I retired as a public school teacher in 2020, the school district I worked for was mandated to stop asking incoming students to take a TB screening test as a condition of enrollment.
I was told by a school district “health official” that mandating a TB test for incoming students meant the school district had to pay for it - There was (as usual) the claim of no money for TB testing so the issue was dropped. We had many many students coming in from south of the border - also Asian countries where TB is still active.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I and other staff were exposed to TB - I’ve been tested and am (so far) negative - but I’ve known other staff members who tested positive for “TB exposure.”
Drug resistance, yep. And who know what all else is coming over. China won’t have to go bat hunting this next time.
Why isn’t Fauxi in prison?
TB ain’t cheap to treat, especially drug resistant varieties.
Guess who’s paying for that.
In the last week there have been reports of TB in schools in TX, GA, IL...
I've heard of cases in upstate NY hospitals, yes, illegals.
I read recently that Fauci has a fairly large security detail at all times and, if I remember correctly, his name means “sickle” or “scythe” in its original Sicilian.
NYS reported an 18% increase in TB cases between 2022 and 2023. That number does not include data from NYC, BTW.
JAMBOG!
TB—the silent killer crossing our border
11/10/2024 6:17:17 PM PST · by massmike · 22 replies
www.foxnews ^ | 11/10/2024 | Betsy McCaughey
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4277524/posts
My doctor is my age (62) and he had a younger doctor want him to look at a case that he was having trouble diagnosing. Turns out it was a kid with measles. He said the influx of illegals has created a spike. Since measles had been essentially eradicated, the young doctor wasn’t familiar with the symptoms.
Seems to me that we can expect to see cases of Bwamba Fever showing up in San Diego and Brownsville. But thankfully we won't see any on Martha's Vineyard.
Thanks to pinko commie SOB’s America is sharing in the misery.
Spelled "i-l-l-e-g-a-l-s f-r-o-m M-e-x-i-c-o." My wife retired from the Texas Juvenile Justice System, and they have been battling TB outbreaks in the Hispanic illegal population for decades. She got a TB test every year she worked with them.
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