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illegla aliens, spreading the disease you don't want to.

Don't be surprised if we see something with E.coli in the near future. Gov. spends a lot of time researching that little bug.

Mexican Teen With TB Faces Deportation

Illegal Immigrant In Georgia Jailed After He Refused Treatment For Contagious Strain Of Tuberculosis

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., Aug. 30, 2007

(AP) Officials started taking steps to deport a Mexican teenager who was jailed after refusing treatment for tuberculosis.

Francisco Santos, 17, has acknowledged to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he is in the country illegally, Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway said Wednesday.

County health officials jailed Santos last week after he refused treatment for an active, contagious case of tuberculosis and threatened to travel to Mexico, a move that could expose more people to the potentially fatal disease. Santos, who lives in Duluth, has since started taking medicine, but he will remain jailed at least until a Sept. 5 hearing.

Conway said Santos' condition and age could further complicate a deportation process that can take months. Because he is a minor, officials would have to make sure he has family in Mexico or that the Mexican government would take a role.

Four people who had been living with Santos have also tested positive for tuberculosis, health officials said Wednesday.

"Those four tested positive but are not actively ill," Gwinnett County Health Department spokesman Vernon Goins said. "Chest X-rays were negative, and we will treat them to keep the disease from developing."

Goins said the four are not contagious and will follow the typical TB treatment for nine months. Four other relatives have tested negative, five more came in for testing Wednesday, with results expected Friday, and three more people will be tested Monday, officials said.

The incident in some ways echoed the case of Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta attorney who in May was held under a federal isolation order after he went on a European wedding trip and refused health officials' directives that he not take any commercial jets back to the United States.

Tuberculosis kills nearly 2 million people each year worldwide.

Because of antibiotics and other measures, the TB rate in the United States has been falling for years. Last year, it hit an all-time low of 13,767 cases, or about 4.6 cases per 100,000 Americans.

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His TB is active and contagious..........he passed it on to the 4 people he lives with.

AND I WONDER HOW MANY MORE????????

Keep the illegal alien disease spreader in jail until he is an adult, then deport him. Simple.

One of the nurses in the health department I worked at told me NOT to eat out for dinner . . .like anywhere. She knows the rate of TB and how widespread it is.

Originally Posted by cvangel

TB was basically eradicated in this country. Illegal immigration endangers all of our lives! And it's happening much more than the news reports because HIPAA laws don't allow medical facilities/personnel to disclose any of this except to the County health departments.

What happened to the good old days when you had to have a health
card to work around food and communicable diseases resulted in
quarantines????

PC and the blind pursuit of diversity is the pandemic of the 21st century.
We are looking at a future plagued with third world diseases, a work force
of anothers countrys underclass which will drag us into our own third world, but that is the plan, isnt it? Level the playing field with the elites at the top
and us worker bees on the bottom. America is well on its way to becoming
the country all the immigrants left but really brought with them.

jjmm, Was she saying it is even more widespread than what the CDC would have us believe? I would also have to assume that this means anyone of us could be infected at any time, and unless we started feeling the effects, we too could be carrying it, maybe passing it on.

Now I am felling paranoid, wondering about this tickle I have had lately, of course my allergies are at an all time high, but now....I am feeling concerned as we have had to take public transportation a lot!!!

GEEZ!!!!!

The worst part is, when you have a communicable disease, you carry it unknowingly out into the public, give to potentially three more people, then they give it to three more each, and it just grows to huge porportions so rapidly, how can the CDC and county health departments keep up?