Posted on 08/03/2014 7:25:35 AM PDT by rktman
........According to the inspector general’s report, [border] “agents have contracted everything from scabies and lice to chickenpox, including bringing the disease home to their own children, as they care for the unaccompanied minors.” The report said some illegal immigrants’ “unfamiliarity with bathroom facilities caused unsanitary conditions and exposure to human waste.”
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It might have, but it was not lost on me, that's precisely where I got my info.
With these illegal alien kids being dumped in secret all over the country I am waiting for major disease outbreaks when school starts this fall. Undoubtedly some of these kids will end up in small schools without school nurses or other public health resources and the diseases and parasites they carry will spread like wildfire before being detected.
Sorry nully, sometimes when flipping thru tabs I tend to post a general reply, not directed to recipient.
“To be totally serious, when I saw it was considered an STD, I was really surprised. I don’t think most folks know this.”
Because when you present to the ER with a regular STD don’t the techs and nurses always suit up in spacesuits?
No offense taken! I appreciate you spotlighting the post, I was all set to track it down in anticipation of someone ‘source please’-ing me!
Because when you present to the ER with a regular STD don’t the techs and nurses always suit up in spacesuits?
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I wouldn’t know - never had that experience!
Friends of mine work in the ER. They do not do such a thing.
But if you present with more than one strain you might be ‘discussed’...
Thanks for posting that info with the graphs. It confirms the CDC 3% variance of this strain with previous Zaire Ebola Virus. That “drift” is not insignificant IMO. May well account for increased hardiness and transmissability.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24860690
Might explain the separate repatriation of the two Americans. The Dr having received blood from an Ebola survivor, the other not. Isolate the one from the other and compare samples. That sort of lab work might reveal more than a field lab.
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No. Droplet transmission. That is similar to airborne, but not quite the same.
I heard Rush say that it takes the average illegal immigrant 45 days to reach our border from their origin.
Ebola has an incubation period of at most 21 days. In most cases, it is closer to 8 days.
Even with someone who has a very long incubation before symptoms appear, there is little chance of them still being alive once they reach our border.
While Ebola could get here by plane, it is highly unlikely to get here via illegal immigrants. The other diseases, however, are a concern.
Funny thing about scabies. The mites can be picked up off a surface an infested person has been in contact with.
Ugh!
They aren't hard to get rid of, but who wants them!
The virus causes rhinitis in pigs, and they sneeze constantly, causing heavy contamination of their environment. An organism (like C. difficile, for example) that is spread by the host contaminating the environment is not traditionally called “airborne”.
Central Americans are mostly more primitive than that (the part of the population most likely to come here) they will go into a restroom and not use the toilet at all...floor, corner, sink...
Double ugh!!! Supposedly the itching is pretty intense and miserable. I understand some of the Border Patrol guys have gotten scabies from the illegals. At least scabies aren’t “life threatening”.
What you are missing is that illegals generally travel in groups, and meet up with other groups along the way. Disease does not have to travel all the way here in one host, it can be relayed. The sick person will infect at least some of the other people encountered. If an illegal becomes very ill, they try even harder to get here for medical treatment- meaning they would be unlikely to stop their travel until their illness forces them to stop.
The itching is very intense. Far worse than Poison Ivy, Oak, or Sumac. That’s what prompted me to peel open one of the blisters under the microscope—to see what was causing it, if I could.
Ebola is only communicable once the person becomes symptomatic. At that point, they become rapidly debilitated, rendering them unable to travel. In the hot climate of Mexico, without medical treatment, their condition would decline very rapidly.
I seem to recall reading that the coyotes—the human traffickers—have no patience with people who can’t keep up with the group, and routinely abandon people to die. For that reason, an Ebola victim would probably be abandoned at the first symptom. The coyotes certainly aren’t going to spend any time trying to care for that person. In that situation, the chance of a second person contracting Ebola is slim.
Also, one thing about highly lethal diseases is that they kill their victims so quickly that the disease has no chance to spread. So, assuming a group of illegals were to stop and try to care for an Ebola victim in their midst, they would all infect themselves and their journey would end there.
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