@JetJock - When you introduce new populations to a country, you introduce diseases that have not been seen in that area. You also immediately increase the risk of deadly disease outbreaks.
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EV D68, enterovirus, that has been causing severe respiratory illness across the country is responsible for the death of a 4-year-old boy, according to New Jersey medical examiner. The death of Eli Waller was the result of enterovirus 68, Hamilton Township health officer Jeff Plunkett said, citing the medical examiner.
The virus has sickened more than 500 people in 43 states and Washington, D.C. almost all of them children. (THINK ABOUT THAT SPREAD!!! 43 STATES AND WASHINGTON, D.C.) Earlier this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said four people infected with the virus had died but what role it played in the deaths was unclear. Some children are especially vulnerable to infection because of pre-existing conditions, though the medical examiner said that was NOT the case in the New Jersey death.
http://www.enterovirusfoundation.org/symptoms.shtmlBorder Patrol estimates, as reported by the Associated Press, show that more than 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended since October. Most are from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. President Obama has proposed to spend $3.7 BILLION to address the issue, however, many fear the Administration isn't telling the public the full story and fear that minors are being relocated to agencies across the nation WITHOUT BEING PROPERLY PROCESSED.
For example, between 2009 and 2010 more than 3,500 cases of MUMPS were reported in New York City and surrounding area.
In 2010 California experienced an outbreak of WHOOPING COUGH LARGER THAN ANY OUTBREAK THERE SINCE 1947. Ten children died.
In the first half of 2012, Washington suffered 2,520 cases of WHOOPING COUGH, A 1,300% INCREASE from the previous year and the LARGEST OUTBREAK IN THE STATE SINCE 1942.
As of Aug. 29, about 600 cases of measles have occurred in the U.S. in 2014: the LARGEST OUTBREAK in 20 yearsin a country that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared MEASLES-FREE in 2000.
There is a campaign in Pakistan to contain an uncontrolled outbreak of polio which hit an alarming point when the nations tally of new cases exceeded last years total of 93, with months to go, in the emergency effort to vaccinate children over fierce opposition from the Taliban. For the past two years, parents and health workers have been intimidated by Taliban leaders who banned vaccination under threat of death in retaliation for Americas drone strikes against militant leaders.
Why should this affect us? Twenty-eight individuals from Pakistan were apprehended while crossing the U.S. border this year, with another 211 individuals either turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry. (WHERE ARE THEY NOW?)
Individuals from terrorist nations are called SIAs, Special Interest Aliens and many are known to be in the United States. The Terrorist nations represented by those apprehended crossing our southern border include Afghanistan, Yemen, SOMALIA, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and PAKISTAN.
The terrorist border threat is coming into greater light as a result of documents being obtained by WSB News 2 of Atlanta. They report that among the terrorists known to be inside the United States are three hundred members of the Somali terror organization al-Shabab. That group was the perpetrator of the Kenyan mall massacre. While the 300 SIAs are known for a fact to be somewhere in the U.S., THEIR SPECIFIC LOCATION IS NOT KNOWN.
And, Oh, BTW - Ebola: We're told Ebola can only be spread through the bodily fluids of people showing signs of the disease. The chances of an Ebola outbreak in the United States are "extremely low," Obama said. U.S. are working with officials in Africa "to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn't get on a plane for the United States."
And then this: Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola victim in Dallas, answered no to questions about whether he had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of someone who had died in an area affected by Ebola. Duncan had days earlier helped carry to a taxi a pregnant woman who later died of Ebola. Her illness at the time was believed to be pregnancy-related. At the time Duncan left, its not clear if he knew of the womans diagnosis. And so he might actually be a good samaritan - but just unaware of the woman's critical situation. Duncan told a triage nurse when he first came to the hospital that he had recently returned from Liberia, a fact supported by the woman who accompanied him to the hospital. Officials at Texas Presbyterian blame the setup of their electronic medical records system for not conveying this information to the treating physicians.
And so, it goes on. From this incident alone, it is easy to realize how this terrible disease can spread - inadvertently, and via carelessness - from patient, to nurses, to doctors, to their families and friends. HOW DO YOU STOP IT?
As the Ebola crisis has grown in West Africa, the need to stop its spread has grown ever more urgent. The number of cases is now over 20,000, and the CDC estimates that by January, Liberia and Sierra Leone will have 1.4 million people with Ebola infections. These are frightening numbers. CDC Director Frieden revealed that in the month of September, screening at airports in African countries has turned away 77 people who had signs of possible Ebola infection, including 17 in the month of September. Although Frieden used this example to illustrate the effectiveness of CDCs screening program, it also shows that SICK PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BOARD PLANES TO THE U.S. As the outbreak grows, it will grow increasingly difficult to keep all Ebola-infected passengerswho dont show signs of infection for several daysoff those planes.
British Airways is suspending all of its flights between London and Liberia and Sierra Leone until December 31. BRITISH AIRWAYS followed the lead of EMIRATES, which became the first major international airline to cancel flights, and AFRICAN carriers Arik and ASKY. AIR FRANCE suspended its flights to and from Sierra Leone, and the French government has urged French nationals to leave Sierra Leone.
But the U.S. suspend flights? NAH? We'll all be just fine. Obama said so!!! And what the heck, if they can't get here by air, there's always our our southern border, RIGHT?