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Are You Ready for a TB Epidemic?
Thomas Lifson / American Thinker
Is stupidity or malevolence behind the policy of distributing Central American illegal alien children around the country among the general population? The question must be asked because alarming numbers of these unfortunates are carrying tuberculosis, a lethal disease that had largely been eradicated from the United States.
At the Chicago Boyz blog, Trent Talenko writes, America’s Impending Tuberculosis Epidemic, which should scare the heck out of you, because it contains some serious epidemiological information.
…this idea of TB positive illegal alien children released to illegal immigrant parents scares the heck out of me from the point of view of epidemiology. In the 1920’s TB was the eighth leading cause of death for children 1-to-4 years old. Since then American public health has been so effective in preventing it that the USA no longer has any “herd immunity” to TB.
This “catch and release” illegal alien policy is horrible from the infectious disease point of view in that phlegm or aerosolized sputum that are contaminated withMycobacterium tuberculosis are active biohazards that have long latent infection periods. This makes “exposure” very easy. The clinical definition of TB Exposure — which I found in a University of Vanderbilt student medical file PDF — is the following:
read more at American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/are_you_ready_for_a_tb_epidemic.html
