Posted on 06/01/2007 11:10:37 AM PDT by Species8472
Arizona hospitals and doctors are worried about the resurgence of some serious infectious diseases, and some believe illegal immigrants are the cause.
A rise in diseases such as whooping cough, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and even leprosy are creating public health concerns and could hit hospitals and health care systems already financially burdened by indigent illegals flooding emergency rooms and urgent care centers.
The resurgence also is fueling conservative calls for tougher border security and could cause problems for Arizona industries that rely on migrant workers for jobs in food services, construction, tourism and agriculture.
The Maricopa County Health Department reported earlier this month a 100 percent increase in the number of cases of whooping cough (pertussis) over the past year.
TB concerns grow Hospitals and health care professionals also are concerned about Mexican immigrants bringing tuberculosis with them to border states such as Arizona. "I've been in practice in Arizona for 25 years," said Dr. Tim Kuberski, president of the Arizona Infectious Disease Society. "The one disease that is most often associated with undocumented aliens is tuberculosis because there is a resurgence in the number of cases of TB."
The federal government reports that while TB is on the decline nationally, Hispanics are the most-likely ethnic group to have the disease, and high TB rates in Mexican border areas are a big concern.
Recent federal reports found that Mexican border regions have high rates of infectious diseases and that half of U.S. TB cases are from immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at phoenix.bizjournals.com ...
In Ca., there seems to be a flood of Hispanics who join clubs , gyms, like Ballys, 24 Hour et al. My fear is that as a gym goer, in the steam room, in the sauna, in the pool area and even in the work out areas, could coughs, sputums,(for some reason people love to spit in the showers in gyms)spread disases? When I hear nothing but foreign lingo from the gym goers, I wonder.
This would be just another reason for HillaryCare.....The democrats know what they are doing...importing a sick, uneducated and poor third world voting base.
Can we just focus on the trial lawyer and stop picking on the poor downtrodden illegals?
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Reminds me of Vito Andolini who was quarantined after he arrived from Sicily back in the day. :)
My grandmother was quarantined at Ellis Island, though. They were afraid she was carrying some disease.
13 years old - and all alone. My God, she had a lot of courage.
That was 1906.
In Florida (and to a lesser extent here in NJ), Ballys is known as a “gay” gym. You won’t likely catch TB from the Mariposas/Putos at the Ballys on Lincoln Road in South Beach, although you may catch something else...
Someone please post Captain Obvious...
Ya think? Just because the CDC ran a study with findings that proved that, we'll just sit around and speculate that may or may not be the cause. Can't have any of this blamed on those poor hardworking illegals.
Invest in a home gym and stay home.
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Just another reason for you to fear either eating at a restaurant, with high incidence of hiring illegals, to purchasing food from Mexico or produced in CA, where there are hundreds of Mexicans working at “jobs ordinary Americans refuse to do (and the farmers who refuse to purchase and use machinery that would limit this labor)”.
Here in SoCal, gyms are filled with ethnic illegals from all over the globe. It drives my wife nuts when they don’t read signs on health, spitting, diving, nose spurts yep, nose spurts in the pool. We left Ballys to go to 24 Hour because of the filth in the gym and the fact that nobody spoke English anymore. Who knows how many germs are being spread or as you noted, with the huge gay population here in Long Beach, what else is being spread?!
Thought you might like to see this!
Love your tagline!
Dr. Madeline Cosman was one of the best in these disease/immigration studies. Denying the facts won’t make them go away.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/3/9/213335.shtml
[snip]
“So we release sick illegal aliens to our American streets to infect others if their diseases are contagious, or we place them in our Medicaid program and pay for their expensive treatments.”
Thus we see horrendous diseases that we long ago conquered in America are coming back to plague us. Let’s take tuberculosis as an example. Ordinary T.B. can be cured in six months with four drugs that cost about $2,000. Serious M.D.R.-T.B. takes 24 months at a cost in expensive drugs at approximately $250,000. Each illegal alien with M.D.R.-T.B. coughs and infects numerous people who will not show symptoms immediately; the disease explodes later like a time bomb.
In “Hospital to the World Welcomes Illegals and Contagious Diseases” (April 25, 2005), Dr. Cosman informs us that:
* T.B. was virtually absent in Virginia until in 2002 it spiked a 17 percent increase.
* Not far from Washington, D.C., T.B. had a meteoric rise of 188 percent. Public health officials blame immigrants, traced to illegal aliens from Mexico.
* The Queens, New York, Health Department attributed 81 percent of new T.B. cases in 2001 to immigrants, with 42 percent of all new T.B. cases ascribed to the foreign born.
* Violent T.B. outbreaks afflicted schoolteachers and children in Michigan and adults and kids in Texas. The teachers and kids caught it at school from the coughing children of illegal aliens.
* In Minnesota, the police suddenly came down with M.D.R.-T.B. The cops caught it in their patrol cars when they arrested illegal aliens who coughed in their faces.
* T.B. erupted in Portland, Maine, and DelRay Beach, Florida, directly traced to illegals.
Dr. Cosman also told this reporter of other diseases brought back to us by illegals:
* She cited Chagas disease, which has no known cure and has the revolting nickname of “kissing bug disease.” The bug has parasites that favor the lips and the face for infection and infects 18 million people in Latin America.
* She cites leprosy: Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases. Illegal aliens brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico.
* Next on the list: dengue fever. There was a recent outbreak in Webb County, Texas, on the border with Mexico.
* Polio was eradicated from America but now appears in illegal immigrants.
* Malaria was obliterated but is now emerging in Texas and other states.
* About 4,000 young children under age 5 have contracted a disease called Kawasaki, known as “strawberry tongue.”
* And there’s the deadly Marburg disease.
* And there’s the ever-present and increasing Hepatitis A, B and C; an outbreak occurred near Pittsburgh, where 3,000 came down with it thanks to infected Mexico-grown scallions and illegal alien kitchen workers in Chi-Chi’s restaurant. Two Americans died.
We can thank the late Dr. Madeleine Cosman for alerting us to what the illegal aliens bring to us as they cross our borders. Dr. Cosman was outstanding in the fields of law and medicine, and she provided constant updates on disease information we found nowhere else. She exposed the disease factors and the astronomical costs to the taxpayers for the medical services never reimbursed as well as the costs of “anchor babies.” Madeleine knew that the wonderful nation left to us by our forefathers could be destroyed without constant vigilance.
Indeed, we are the GOLDEN DOOR – Hospital to the World – and we’re paying for all of it. But, dear doctor, you’ve done us a great public service in keeping us informed. You, dear friend, will be sorely missed.
Disgusting.
What should concern you even more is that the first job many illegals get is in food service at restaurants. Hepatitis C is running twice the rate of the rest of the state in Galveston County. We don't eat out any more.
Be careful, Gramma, last night I was given a new name for posting these stats.
Take a look at the keyword “TB”. It’s not like we haven’t been warned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=tb
Regards,
AuntBigot
Aunt BIGOT??????
Oh man.
OH man.
Trust me, I know we’ve been warned on a lot of this junk, I’ve been following....very very closely.
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