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    New Americans (and PC Politicians) are Killing Us! TB Again

    New Americans (and PC Politicians) are killing us! TB again!

    January 30, 2019 ~ Ann Corcoran
    “[T]he bacteria originated with an international student and spread to at least seven others who had close contact with them.”Doug Schultz, a Health Department spokesman
    Yes, immigrants can kill with guns as Wilber Martinez-Guzman obviously did in Nevada earlier this month and they can kill with contagious diseases like Tuberculosis, but the national media, Leftwing Open Borders agitators and most politicians dodge and weave and don’t want to make that direct connection. I will.
    Check out the story last week from Minnesota!

    From the Star Tribune:

    TB outbreak tied to Minnesota State, Mankato under investigation

    The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating a tuberculosis outbreak among eight people associated with Minnesota State University, Mankato.





    Mankato is a refugee welcoming city. http://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/local_news/mankato-s-welcoming-nature-draws-refugees/article_be17e754-afe3-11e5-8a97-5fe64a4f016a.html State health officials are asking clinics to look out for tuberculosis symptoms in college-aged individuals who have spent time at the university since August 2016.

    “Typically, health care providers seeing respiratory issues in an average, otherwise healthy 20-something Minnesotan wouldn’t normally be thinking TB,” Doug Schultz, a Health Department spokesman said late Thursday. Risk factors for the infection usually include travel abroad to a country where TB is common, but in this case, all but one contracted TB in the United States.

    Investigators believe the bacteria originated with an international student and spread to at least seven others who had close contact with them, Schultz said.
    What if that “international student” had not been diagnosed for another few months, how many more would be infected?
    To contain the outbreak, health officials contacted about 700 people who may have interacted with the patients, such as roommates and significant others. Of those, they identified another 30 individuals who have a latent form of TB, meaning they tested positive for the bacteria but didn’t exhibit symptoms.
    Did the 30! with latent TB acquire it from the one “international” student (but, hey, isn’t everyone entering the country supposed to be tested BEFORE they enter!)?
    Minnesota clinics typically see around 140 TB cases each year, but an outbreak this size is considered unusual.

    Though many think TB was eradicated years ago, about 10,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    The vast majority of TB cases are found in the immigrant (aka new American) population!

    In 2017, more than 70 percent of those diagnosed were born outside the United States, including in Africa and Asia, where the disease is common. The percentage of foreign-born TB patients in Minnesota is over 80 percent, experts said.

    That year, an outbreak of drug-resistant TB in Ramsey County infected 17 people, killing three of them.
    The next time you see one of those glowing reports about how “New Americans” bring economic boom times to struggling cities, see if the report includes the cost to the local health department!

    More here.

    Fargo, ND Commissioner still trying to move the citizens of North Dakota to action on the issue of TB in the refugee community. (See my previous post.)

    From Inforumon Monday:

    Fargo approves tuberculosis testing program as city official Piepkorn again raises alarm, points finger at LSS




    Commissioner Strand Commissioner Strand tells us exactly how fearful some elected officials are—not of TB, but of the PC Leftwing mob!
    “This is a delicate issue, Mr. Piepkorn,” Commissioner John Strand said. “I just don’t want to get into targeting populations of people and identifying them as bringing different risks or not.”
    The Centers for Disease Control is not as squeamish. Inforum continues,
    The program’s guidelines, as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, define high-risk populations. In the context of the TB program, high-risk populations, include, “refugees, migrants or recent arrivals from high incidence countries, high-risk racial/ethnic populations within the jurisdiction, the homeless; injection drug users; recent contacts of an active TB case. Residents of high-risk congregate settings (i.e. jail/prison populations, nursing homes (not employees) and other long-term care facilities for the elderly . . . ” and so on.
    Read it all here.
    It is great that two local news outlets are more forthcoming about the issue of Tuberculosis in the refugee and migrant population to the US, but why isn’t all this being reported nationally? Why isn’t it on the cable news or in big investigations by the New York Times or Washington Post?

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    TB is on the rise. Guess why!

    It's time for fools to take a bow.


    February 7, 2019
    By Carol Brown

    After more than two decades of steady decline in active cases of tuberculosis in America, the trend has now reversed.
    It's time for fools to take a bow. Congratulations Marxists, and complicit members of the GOP. Your commitment to importing large numbers of people from third-world countries is really paying off.
    CDC stats from 2017 show that 70% of reported cases of TB in the United States was found among non-U.S.-born individuals. Migrants from Mexico accounted for the largest share.
    On top of that, we're seeing strains of TB that are multi-drug resistant (MDR). And as dangerous as these strains are, we're seeing even more lethal strains that are extensively drug resistant (XDR).



    TB bacteria (via Flickr).


    Then there's the issue of screening. Per a Star Tribune report:
    Immigrants and refugees are screened for TB and treated before entering the United States. Tourists, students and temporary workers are not screened[.] ...
    Because TB hits some ethnic and racial groups harder than others, TB patients can face discrimination and social isolation. Public health officials worry about finding ways to target high-risk populations with TB education and treatment without stigmatizing those groups.
    Why aren't we testing everyone, and especially those from regions where we know TB is endemic? Come on, folks. Stigma versus public health risk? Common sense, no?
    Apparently not.
    We'd rather put healthy people at risk lest we offend some foreigner carrying a potentially deadly disease. If someone wants to come here, he'll need to deal with whatever "stigma" he feels when we test him for a contagious and increasingly fatal disease. Geez. You'd think people would be glad to be tested for the sake of their health, the health of their loved ones, and the health of those around them.
    But apparently not.
    Meanwhile, as you might imagine, treating tuberculosis is labor-intensive and costly. The treatment regimen lasts at least six months, if not longer. Some programs require that health care workers witness patients swallowing every dose of medication and that they monitor them for side-effects. If a patient can't get to a health clinic, the worker goes to wherever the patient resides. All the while, cultural and language barriers present additional challenges.
    Then there's the financial cost.
    For patients who respond to standard treatment, the cost of treating active TB is about $17,000 per person. For those who have drug-resistant strains, the cost is anywhere from $130,000 to $430,000, depending on how resistant the strain is.
    Got that? Taxpayers may shell out nearly half a million dollars to treat one case of a drug-resistant strain of TB.
    Then there's the issue of tracking. After folks develop active disease, tracking them is spotty. So if they fall off the radar, oh, well.
    And as you probably guessed, no state is immune to this madness, though some regions account for a disproportionately high number of cases.
    California, Texas, New York, and Florida (states with the largest number of foreign-born residents) have more than half the active TB cases in the country. Despite California having the largest TB prevention and control program, its infection rate is nearly twice the national average, though that figure is likely higher since about 2.5 million Californians who are infected are unaware they have it.
    In addition, data from just a few years ago in Minnesota showed that 26% of all foreign-born cases of TB were Somalis who came here through the "refugee resettlement" program and 20% of these colonizers forced upon the good people of Minnesota tested positive for latent TB (latent TB is not contagious, but it can turn into active TB, which is contagious).
    On and on it goes. The same pattern is seen everywhere: an uptick in TB due in large part to an influx of people from impoverished countries (here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
    And if I may take a brief detour, in addition to TB, leprosy is making a comeback, as is chicken pox. We're also seeing cases of flesh-eating bacteria. In addition, CDC data document migrants from Bhutan, Burma, Congo, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Central America infected with malaria, hepatitis, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, dengue virus, zika virus, and a wide array of intestinal parasites, among others. And that's just communicable diseases that have been reported in those we know about (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
    The impact of this is devastating. Border patrol is on the front line, battling diseases, as its people contend with sick migrants, most of whom aren't vaccinated. Buildings have become infested with scabies. Many of the illegal wannabes showing up with symptoms aren't being quarantined. And our resources are being depleted and misdirected.
    Border patrol agents spend tens of thousands of hours transporting sick migrants to urgent care clinics and hospitals, which diverts time and attention from where they belong. Dealing with sick migrants is also impacting local communities who are struggling with limited resources to take care of their own citizens, no less citizens from some other country.
    And so I ask: why are these people even in the United States? Why are they on our side of the border? Shouldn't they be on the Mexican side of the border?
    Why are we obliged to take care of them? It's a "humanitarian crisis" of their own making. I resent my tax dollars being spent taking care of people who made the choice to drag themselves and their kids on a dangerous journey to enter the United States illegally or make a bogus claim for asylum. Let them figure out how to make their own country better instead of coming here and making ours worse.
    We don't need "immigration reform." We need to secure our border and enforce our immigration laws. Why is that so hard?


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