Posted on 05/18/2006 7:32:15 AM PDT by Larousse2
Another NAFTA import.
I've been trying to inform people about the diseases being brought into this country by Illegals.
One of my physicians confirmed foreigners are bringing TB into this country.
Do a little research (a similar thread was posted a few days ago) and you'll see that the Mexicans are NOT to blame for this! Please try to know what you are talking about before saying something inflammatory!
heh not just TB. Hubby is a firefighter in an illegal immigrant town near here. They have seen 3 drug resistant TB cases and 2 leprosy cases there that they know of.
Does that scare ya?
I know what you mean.
It almost sounds like a "X-File" scenario.
From what I've read in recent weeks, we're seeing the mumps, TB, this reported sickness, and even Leprosy. But God forbid we close the borders to protect our own people!
Any outbreak of any disease scares me.
Thank heavens I had lots and lots of immunization updates a few years ago. It was very expensive, but well worth it.
A letter-writing campaign recently netted a modicum of high-profile attention when U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), asking whether the organization had investigated the illness. The answer was no. "Our laboratories are available," says CDC spokeswoman Jennifer Morcone. "But we need a clinically appropriate sample." So far, she says, they've only received samples sent in by patients.
There's a reason for that. Lynch and a number of other doctors say they have sent samples to hospital pathologists, medical labs and state health boards, which have uniformly failed to find any sign of an infection. If there's nothing tangible to investigate, there's no reason to call in the big guns at CDC headquarters.
The medical community is skeptical about this condition. Having Durbin and Feinstein involved doesn't comfort me.
A big question medical professionals are wrestling with is how victims come down with the disease.
It is not my intention to slur anyone.
I found this article worth posting.
From what I've read, it seems to be a fungal disease, though there is apparently no agreement within the medical community.
Somebody call Dr. House!
Oh, me!
I've got to find my WHO immunization booklet and try to figure out if there are any more immunization updates I need, or others I should try to get.
Sometimes you have to say you're traveling and going to some foreign country where there is such-and-such named disease there so that you can get the immunization.
Do you think a person might have to have a compromised immune system to come down with it?
Your thoughts???
I'm not slurring anyone. It was well worth posting. I'm just saying that with the huge increase in the number of illegal immigrants (who don't have even routine innoculations), we're also seeing outbreaks of a vast number of diseases.
Question: do you possibly remember the old Gentian Violet of days gone by?
I never thought for one split second that you were slurring anyone; rather, it appears to me that you are level-headed and as concerned as I am about diseases that we PERHAPS might not have an immunity.
Now what's that phone number of the "travel nurse"?
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