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While we're watching what the right hand is doing with potential terrorists are we missing what the left hand is doing with refugees (and illegals) with diseases?
Tuberculosis (TB)
Quote:
"The Congo, Burma, and Bhutan are countries with high rates of active TB and latent TB infection (LTBI). 90 percent of the 4,650 refugees resettled in Idaho between 2011 and 2015, or 4202, were medically screened within the first three months of their arrival, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Of those screened, 21 percent (896) tested positive for LTBI. Only four percent of the general population in the United States tests positive for LTBI."
People with active TB are also let in:
"The other states in which recently arrived refugees have been diagnosed with active TB include: Louisiana (twenty-one), Florida (eleven), Colorado, (ten), Indiana (four), Kentucky (where nine were diagnosed in one county), and North Dakota (where four refugees who resided in the United States for less than five years were diagnosed in one county)."
The rate of LTBI among refugees resettled in other states:
Vermont 35%
Tennessee 27%
Indiana 26%
Minnesota 22%
Texas 15%
California 12%
North Dakota (in one county) 29%
Now I know what you are thinking - this is latent tuberculosis. Latent means you are infected but don't have the disease.
Quote:
"Latent TB is when a person has TB bacteria in their body but there are no symptoms, so they don’t feel unwell. You cannot pass latent TB on to others, but there is a risk that you will become ill with active TB later on, especially if your immune system is weakened, such as through another illness. The TB bacteria in your body might stay ‘asleep’ permanently. However they could, at some point, wake up and turn into active TB, making you develop symptoms and become ill. This is more likely to happen if your immune system becomes weakened."
The CDC says 5% - 10% of people with latent TB develop active TB. "About half of those people who develop TB will do so within the first two years of infection. For persons whose immune systems are weak, especially those with HIV infection, the risk of developing TB disease is considerably higher than for persons with normal immune systems."
So, I guess we are going to have to watch the statistics to see if the 4% of the US general population tests higher in time. What I'm not sure about is the 4%. How many people have actually ever been tested for TB? I was when I was a kid but that was decades ago. All of the refugees are apparently tested when they arrive but who is checking them to see years later if the LTB becomes active?
Is the government taking risks with our health by letting these LTB people in?
They are also letting in people with active TB but I don't have to ask if that's a risk.
Yes it is ok, because American citizens do not come first. We live in a global world where we need bridges not walls.
These refugees are dreamers.
Also it would be racist to say NO.
Sure. Put them in a large concentration of liberals, say Brooklyn, Queens or even Manhattan. There's lots of good medical services there and they can boast how big-hearted they are compared to those cold-hearted Republicans.
Obama got a little mixed up and thought TB was TG so he demanded they be allowed in. But they seem to be relocated to states where TB patients won't do very well. Vermont? traditionally TB patients were sent to hot and dry climates like Arizona.
Yes it is ok, because American citizens do not come first. We live in a global world where we need bridges not walls.
These refugees are dreamers.
Also it would be racist to say NO.
Sincerely,
Democrats
Correct. And if you think american citizens should come first, you are a racist, xenophobic nationalist. And a stupidhead.
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