Deadly diseases crossing border with illegals

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet warns of dangers from 'textbook Cloward-Piven strategy'

Published: 3 hours ago

A flood of illegals has massively surged at our southwestern borders. The economic impact of medical care, education and incarceration for illegals forced on taxpayers is bankrupting Arizona.

Why are such swarms entering the U.S. illegally NOW, particularly children? Newspapers in Mexico and Central and South America are actually describing U.S. “open borders,” encouraging people to come with promises of food stamps or “amnesty.” It is textbook Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm and collapse the economic and social systems, in order to replace them with a “new socialist order” under federal control.

Carried by this tsunami of illegals are the invisible “travelers” our politicians don’t like to mention: diseases the U.S. had controlled or virtually eradicated: tuberculosis (TB), Chagas disease, dengue fever, hepatitis, malaria, measles, plus more. I have been working on medical projects in Central and South America since 2009, so I am aware of problems these countries face from such diseases.

A public health crisis, the likes of which I have not seen in my lifetime, is looming. Hardest hit by exposures to these difficult-to-treat diseases will be elderly, children, immunosuppressed cancer-patients, patients with chronic lung disease or congestive heart failure. Drug-resistant tuberculosis is the most serious risk, but even diseases like measles can cause severe complications and death in older or immunocompromised patients.

TB is highly contagious – you catch it anywhere around infected people: schools, malls, buses, etc. The drug-resistant TB now coming across our borders requires a complex, extremely expensive treatment regimen that has serious side effects and a low cure rate.

Chagas, or “kissing bug” disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is carried by the triatomine bug that transmits disease to humans. Although “kissing bugs” are already here, they are not as widespread as in Latin America. Right now, Chagas disease is uncommon in the U.S., so many doctors do not think to check for it.

Chagas causes debilitating fatigue, headaches, body aches, nausea/vomiting, liver and spleen enlargement, swollen glands, loss of appetite. When Chagas reaches the chronic phase, medications will not cure it. It can kill by arrhythmias, congestive heart failure or sudden cardiac arrest.

Vaccine-preventable diseases like chicken pox, measles and whooping cough spread like wildfire among unvaccinated children. Other illnesses, along with scabies and head lice, also thrive as children are transported by bus and herded into crowded shelters – courtesy of the federal government. Treatment costs are borne by taxpayers.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/deadly-diseas...hWQTSH80gzDv.99

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TB is highly contagious – you catch it anywhere around infected people: schools, malls, buses, etc. The drug-resistant TB now coming across our borders requires a complex, extremely expensive treatment regimen that has serious side effects and a low cure rate.

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Note this in not your fathers' or grandfathers' TB which was not highly contagious. To catch it required long exposure in a poorly ventilated environment. 'Old' TB was highly responsive to antibiotics. Granted it required IIRC 1 1/2 to 2 years of treatment.

"People with prolonged, frequent, or close contact with people with TB are at particularly high risk of becoming infected, with an estimated 22% infection rate.[42] A person with active but untreated tuberculosis may infect 10–15 (or more) other people per year.[3] Transmission should only occur from people with active TB - those with latent infection are not thought to be contagious.[1] The probability of transmission from one person to another depends upon several factors, including the number of infectious droplets expelled by the carrier, the effectiveness of ventilation, the duration of exposure, the virulence of the M. tuberculosis strain, the level of immunity in the uninfected person, and others.[43"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis#Transmission

Here are some of TB's lovely consequences:

"extrapulmonary infection sites include the pleura (in tuberculous pleurisy), the central nervous system (in tuberculous meningitis), the lymphatic system (in scrofula of the neck), the genitourinary system (in urogenital tuberculosis), and the bones and joints (in Pott's disease of the spine), among others. When it spreads to the bones, it is also known as "osseous tuberculosis".[14] a form of osteomyelitis.[1] Sometimes, bursting of a tubercular abscess through skin results in tuberculous ulcer.[15] An ulcer originating from nearby infected lymph nodes is painless, slowly enlarging and has an appearance of "wash leather".[16] A potentially more serious, widespread form of TB is called "disseminated" TB, commonly known as miliary tuberculosis.[9] Miliary TB makes up about 10% of extrapulmonary cases.[17]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis#Extrapulmonary

TB had been virtually eradicated in the US. There was a reason immigration once required passing a health exam. I suggest Malia and Sasha go to school with a classroom full of illegals.

Here's another study of the disease spread by illegals:
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf
Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Ph.D., Esq. , is a medical lawyer, who formerly taught medical students at the City University of New York