"Eradicated" diseases are back in U. S.

[BEER980]

Immigration’s New Version Of Red Tape
By Frosty Wooldridge

As previously reported, America is under an attack via 'Third World
Momentum'. As more illegal aliens sneak past our borders without
being screened for diseases, they disperse throughout our country
carrying a backpack full of Center for Disease Control
consequences. Within the past few years, leprosy, tuberculosis,
hepatitis, Chagas disease and even malaria have jumped over our
borders from Mexico on the backs of an average 2,000 illegal
aliens 24/7.

The national media-worthy traumas occurred at Chi-Chi
Restaurants in Monaco, Pennsylvania with hepatitis killing patrons
who ate there. Later, we read where police, teachers and students
tested positive for tuberculosis all around the country. All of it
related to illegal aliens crossing into the US without health
screening.

In the past month, another Third World disease raised its ugly
head in Oregon. It may have spread to other states across our
nation. It won't get the play of the deadly attacks of hepatitis or
tuberculosis, however, for American children exposed to this
disease, it's a personal nightmare for parents. Worse, it may take
years to manifest itself in the child. By that time, it may be too
late. The infection is 'neurocysticercosis', which is caused by the
parasite Taenia solium. It's a tapeworm identified as the cause of
this disease in the Southwestern United States.

It is especially rampant in the growing 'colonias' stretching from
Brownsville, Texas along the Mexican border all the way to San
Diego, California. The poorest illegal alien immigrants set up
shantytowns on the U.S. side of the border. They feature no
sanitation of any kind. No toilets. No showers. No clean water.
Disease proliferates unchecked. In 1985, 185,000 Mexican and
South Americans inhabited those shantytowns. By 1995, they
numbered 500,000. By 2000, according to the New York Times,
they totaled one million. At the current rate of growth, they will
reach 20 million in the next 17 years. As they expand and move
into the United States, they carry many diseases including the
parasite Taenia solium.

The tapeworm had previously been eradicated in U.S. pork via
animal husbandry techniques. However, it's rampant in the Third
World. Since that world is immigrating into America at an
unprecedented rate of speed, the parasite is moving along with
them and passed among people.

The recent cause for alarm stemmed from the death of a
17-year-old girl, who, as an infant, had immigrated with her
parents from Mexico to Oregon. She complained of severe
headaches. A CT scan revealed the parasite in her brain tissue.
She died. An examination showed the tapeworm had grown in her
brain to a point where it killed her.

Dr. John M. Townes, a disease specialist in Oregon noted that
pork tapeworm cases in his U.S. study had originated outside the
country. Of 61 patients studied, 41 hailed from Mexico. Five
others had not traveled abroad. Four were infected by family
members.

Townes noted that the tapeworm passes from person to person. If
a family member carries a tapeworm, eggs can be transmitted to
others through lack of hand washing. "In such cases, the eggs
travel to the intestines, where they enter the bloodstream,"
Townes said. "The microscopic eggs travel throughout the body
and lodge in muscle tissue, under the skin, in the eyes, and most
frequently, in the brain."

The most sobering aspect of Third World traditions is the lack of
handwashing as a normal aspect of personal hygiene and
sanitation. Additionally, Third World persons throw their used toilet
paper into boxes beside the toilet because most septic systems
can not handle paper. When they arrive in the U.S., it's been found
that immigrants throw their used TP beside the toilet or into
trashcans rather than the toilet. As Dr. Townes noted, "The
Oregon Department of Human Services probably understates the
extent of the problem."

That brings up the intensifying harmful conditions of this national
immigration crisis. To say the least, it's being understated! A few
people died from hepatitis in a Chi-Chi Restaurant. Eight police
officers tested positive for tuberculosis in Austin, Minnesota
because policemen were exposed while arresting illegal aliens.
Another 30 students and four teachers tested positive for
tuberculosis in a small Michigan town last fall. More tested
positive in Del Rey Beach, Florida. A single case of Malaria was
discovered in an illegal immigrant in Brownsville, Texas last fall.
Nine confirmed deaths from Chagas Disease slipped by the front
page last year in Miami and Los Angeles. Few noted 1.3 million
chickens being killed last February in California because they
were affected by Exotic New Castle disease being imported by
illegal aliens bringing their fighting roosters over our borders. Now,
this tapeworm is moving out of Mexico into the United States via
immigration.

What is it that the men and women in our Congress don't
understand about this immigration crisis and how it affects
average Americans? Why won't this Congress take a stand
against lawlessness at our southern borders? How many more
park rangers like Kris Eggle or Border Patrol officers have to be
shot by drug smugglers before this Congress lives up to its sworn
duty to 'defend and protect against enemies both foreign and
domestic'? Whose children will be next to die with their brains
scrambled by this tapeworm now working its way into our
population via immigration? Who will they thank--their individual
congressmen, senators or the president?


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[azsnowman]

2 things come to mind here:

1) The over use of antibiotics in children/adults, I just read this in the paper yesterday. Doctors nationwide are starting to back off prescribing antibios for common ailements such as earaches, sniffles etc. 2) Another thing, look at how many antibacterial products are on our store shelves these days, everything from hand soap to *probably* even toilet tissue! We, for one, do NOT use antibacterial products although they are becoming harder and harder to find!

Dennis

[azsnowman]

OH.....and as far as eating pork, you'll NEVER, EVER catch this kid eating pork again "EVER!" After 20 years of cutting meat and many, many visits to the ER for blood infections from pork blood....I won't come CLOSE to pork products UNLESS it's smoked and cured, pork chops, ribs, etc. "NO WAY JOSE!" If the public in general could visit a meat shop when pork is being cut, it would turn your stomach. It's SO infectious, that MOST meat dept HAVE to have a seperate meat saw to cut it, you CANNOT cross contaminate pork with beef! Bet ya didn't know that one huh?

Dennis

[GalvestonDuck]

I completely agree about the overuse of antibacterial agents and antibiotics, Dennis. People acted as if they were the prevent-all for everything, when, in fact, they were only useful against fighting bacteria, not viruses like HIV and the flu.

As strong as I feel about the problem with illegal immigrants, I think it's quite an alarmist attitude to blame them as a major cause of diseases running rampant in the US. Hepatitis has been spreading for years, no thanks in part to the people who continue having unprotected sex and those who keep using dirty needles to take drugs. And I dealt with several TB patients in my job at the ER in KY. Most of them were homeless white men who didn't understand the severity of their disease and why they needed to quit coughing all over everyone from whom they tried to bummer a quarter. Neurocysticercosis is very benign and usually resolves itself if the exposure is simple and singular.

And can you please define "Third World" country? Most Third World countries, as I know them, do not even have toilets, so where does the concern about where they throw their toilet paper come from? In KY, out in the rural areas, a lot of people use septic systems also. They can't flush anything more than the natural waste. However, where the TP goes does not have anything to do with the spread of diseases. Either way, it still gets used for the same purpose before being thrown away or flushed. The key is whether or not someone washes their hands after doing that.

As far as pork goes -- I read "The Jungle" and I'll still eat pork.

[Skywatch_NC]

I've read "The Jungle" too and still eat it, also.

Eric

[petal*pusher]

Hmmm....Duck, I gotta disaqgree with what you say on this one....

"However, where the TP goes does not have anything to do with the spread of diseases."

Common sense tells us just throwing used TP anywhere we decide can cause HUGE health problems! Many diseases and parasites can easily be spread this way!

I share Beer's concerns........there definetely needs to be strong efforts made to discourage the "easy entry" into
our country.

When my daughter was a tot, I was visiting my sister in Pasadena, Cal. I remember being in a store and seeing this beautiful little dark-haired girl wandering around......tattered dress....dirty face....too-big shoes with no shoe-laces. She seemed to be following us. My sister would not put my daughter down to even exchange smiles with this little girl.......it seems a friend of hers had 2 children that had been hospitalized for 2 months because of some "unknown" disease contacted by playing with some new Cambodian refuge kids in the neighborhood. It's a scarry world already.....why add (or condone) more challenges??.......p

[GalvestonDuck]

Okay, sorry I wasn't clear. I meant "where" as in in a garbage can or in the toilet. Obviously, it has to be disposed of somewhere and not just tossed "anywhere." But it also has alot to do with if and how it's handled and if hands are washed after using it or touching it. So, if it is thrown in a garbage can, the person taking the trash out or hauling away the garbage should be sure to wash their hands also.

And I don't disagree at all about needing to keep our borders secure. My argument was just about the "deadly" diseases that they're supposedly bringing here.

Cambodia -- definitely a third world country.

[BEER980]

Well our first line of defense on the border is a rusty barbed wire fence. It's not just Mexicans but a good route for terrorists in from the south. With ranchers in the southwest now finding prayer blankets with Arabic writing sewn into them.

[azsnowman]

Well our first line of defense on the border is a rusty barbed wire fence. It's not just Mexicans but a good route for terrorists in from the south. With ranchers in the southwest now finding prayer blankets with Arabic writing sewn into them.

Tell me about it.....the influx of ILLEGAL aliens has TRIPLED up here on the mountian in JUST the past WEEK......time to round up my dogs and "Go a HUNTIN'"

Dennis