hlat said:
angelburst29 said:
Thousands have been housed on military bases and there have been outbreaks of disease at the detention centers, including pneumonia and swine flu.
angelburst29, you quote a lot of sources, and the question that came up for me is how reliably are these sources? Have you verified them? Are they consistently accurate? For example, the quote above just doesn't sound right to me; my propaganda radar activated. I don't know if the swine flu was real, if there was an outbreak, and how anyone would know there was an outbreak.
Federal health authorities contain pneumonia, swine flu outbreaks among illegal children in California
_http://freebeacon.com/national-security/outbreak-on-the-border/
July 14, 2014 - Health authorities at a Navy base in Southern California took steps last weekend to curtail an outbreak of pneumonia and swine flu among illegal immigrant children housed at the facility, according to U.S. officials.
The outbreak of disease among several of the nearly 600 immigrant children at the Naval Base Ventura County, located north of Los Angeles, initially was thought to be caused by deadly bacterial streptococcal meningitis, according to one official close to the issue.
However, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said he was not aware of any cases of meningitis at the base.
Naval officials, along with HHS and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials, sought to block the disease outbreak by quarantines and halting transfers of children into and out of the facility.
Several of the children developed symptoms that included fever and were at first thought to be meningitis.
The swine flu case, discovered late last week, involved a 16-year-old Salvadoran boy who, like others at the facility, had been transferred recently from Nogales, Ariz.
The sick children were moved to local hospitals where they are being treated.
HHS spokesman Kenneth J. Wolfe said reports of respiratory illness at the naval base involved minors who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and who had been relocated.
“Preliminary reports indicate that several unaccompanied minors in the shelter had become ill with what appears to be pneumonia and influenza,” he said in a statement to the Free Beacon. The illnesses “likely pose little or no risk to the general public,” he added.
The arriving children have been screened at U.S. border stations for health problems and given medical treatment if needed, he said.
The boy who contracted swine flu was part of the flood of illegal immigrant children who have crossed the Mexican border into the United States over the past several months.
A U.S. official said that in addition to the Salvadoran youth treated for swine flu, another case of swine flu was detected in June at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. More than 1,000 immigrant children are being held at Lackland.
_http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/17/Report-HHS-Sending-Illegals-with-Contagious-Diseases-to-States
July 17, 2014 -
Children with fevers and pneumonia have been flown from Arizona to California, where they had to be hospitalized. Three other children are reportedly "in the ICU at local hospitals in California." And a "Ventura Naval Base suffered an outbreak of pneumonia and influenza among the unaccompanied minors inside the shelter" after illegal immigrant children with fevers, chicken pox, and the coxsackie virus were put on planes to the facility. In Texas, there have been at least two cases of swine flu confirmed.
_http://cancerincytes.scienceblog.com/2014/08/12/borderlands-children-health-vulnerabilities-of-immigrant-children-part-1/
August 12, 2014 - Dr. Mark Siegel, a professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, emphasizes that illegal immigration is a public health concern that requires medical attention to prevent possible emergent diseases from spreading. The risk is a compelling reason to urge the Centers for Disease Control to step in and add vigorous health screenings of immigrants to identify, contain and treat communicable diseases that have been detected in detainment states.
Moreover, greater cases of drug-resistant TB and Dengue fever have appeared in the US near the border, and reports of measles, scabies, lice, strep throat and chicken pox have been issued from the temporary shelters. Several cases of pneumonia and swine flu (H1N1) have also been diagnosed among immigrant children.
_http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/07/Feds-Bend-CDC-Rules-for-Sick-Illegal-Immigrants
August 7, 2014 - In some cases, Border Patrol agents and other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff have contracted diseases from infected migrants--many of whom are unaccompanied alien children (UAC)--in the U.S. illegally.
A DHS report issued last week stated, "Many UAC and family units require treatment for communicable diseases, including respiratory illnesses, tuberculosis, chicken pox, and scabies. DHS employees reported exposure to communicable diseases and becoming sick on duty. ... Two CBP Officers reported that their children were diagnosed with chicken pox within days of the CBP Officers' contact with a UAC who had chicken pox."
Agents have also been exposed to TB by the migrant population, according to the DHS report. Fox News recently reported that at least one Border Patrol agent contracted a "severe" case of TB from infected illegal immigrants who he was caring for.
Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer is advising parents to be aware of a respiratory virus that may be linked to dozens of cases of sick children in the U.S.
