Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

KENS 5 Eyewitness News ^ | 05/12/2006 | Deborah Knapp

[Dog Gone]

They don't know the cause, so it must be illegal immigrants.

That's the depth of your thinking.

[mlc9852]

Too late.

[evets]

Beer belly.

[mlc9852]

Where does it say this is from Mexico?

[Dog Gone]

'fraid so.

[evets]

[Responsibility2nd]

Pics? You want pics?

Well, here ya go!

[Bikers4Bush]

Right, and all the outbreaks of tuberculosis, mumps, bed bugs, etc. didn't originate south of the border either.

Any strange disease that shows up on our southern border is almost certainly the result of the illegal alien influx.

Funny though how you assumed that just because I attributed it to illegal trash that I was saying it originated in Mexico.

All I said was that it was another benefit of the illegal horde, I never specified mexico.

[Ptaz]

No I was just making an observation. You must get your jolllies insulting people.

[evets]

frayed knot.

[Rightly Biased]

Not those kind of pics pics of this disease I wanna see those "fibers".

[lone star annie]

My husband came down with a case of chicken pox a year ago. Our family doctor said he very rarely sees it anymore except with immigrants. We traced his whereabouts over the previous week and we think he got it from a food server at a deli in his office building.

[vetvetdoug]

Illegal immigration and abortions are the cause of the disease.

[Paleo Conservative]

It sounds like a disease a character in a science fiction movie would have.

[CholeraJoe]

We traced his whereabouts over the previous week and we think he got it from a food server at a deli in his office building.

Probably not. The incubation period of chickenpox is 3 weeks not one.

[evets]

Illegal aliens bump.

[mlc9852]

So which "illegal horde" were you referring to?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Where does it say this is from Mexico?

In the insta-pundit manual of Democrat lies.

[I still care]

Your're right. Florida, Texas and California do have other things in common other than Latino immigrants. A warm climate perhaps. But it is something to consider.

People from other counties, especially tropical ones, can sometimes harbor parasites that are unusual. When someone shows up with strange symptoms, one of the first questions a doctor sill ask is have they been abroad.

But I donn't know what the incidence of these infections is in Central America at all.

[brytlea]

Perhaps it's a tick spread parasite? I find it difficult to believe that if they can collect the fibers, they cannot tell what they are. Weird.
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