[Hardastarboard]

There have been a quiet but steady number of whooping cough cases in northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. The doctors haven't been diagnosing it because they so rarely see it. We believe my wife may have had it, and three people at her church were diagnosed with it (friend of hers and her two children). I met the lab supervisor of a hospital near Kenosha, Wisconsin this weekend at a party who told me that they are sending out 5 whooping cough tests a day and getting back 10% positives (do the math, works out to about 10 a month). And I am NOT making this up.

I believe it is because of illegals. When's the last time you heard of ANYONE having whooping cough? It had to be brought here from somewhere else.

These gutless, G-d d@mn politicians that will sell our souls to buy a vote need to to start paying attention that hey, your career means nothing to the electorate. What matters is OUR health and safety. You're all going to find that out the hard way sooner or later. G-d, this frosts me.

[bayourod]

"I believe it is because of illegals. "

What does this have to do with terrorists? It's just the same old xenophobic argument that foreigners bring strange disease's.

It was said about the Chinese, Irish, Poles, Asians, Africans etc...

We don't quarantine tourists, diplomats, laborers, immigrants or other visitors.

[JackelopeBreeder]

This is a typical load-out site for illegal aliens here in Cochise County, Arizona. The coyotes make them abandon anything they can't fit in a pocket. You will note there are no dumpsters -- and no porta-potties. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

The government does nothing about cleaning up sites like these; it is all done by local citizens. I can't call them true volunteers as they have little choice -- either clean it up or leave a festering health hazard in their neighborhood. Our public health officials are getting worried and try to make people follow full hazmat protocols at these sites. Drug resistant tuberculosis and hepatitis are the main worry, but things like leprosy, plague, and Chagas disease are starting to show up as well.

[hershey]

Not only whooping cough, but TB and various forms of hepatitis and God knows what else.