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>
> LEPROSY, HEPATITIS AND TUBERCULOSIS RISING FAST IN UNITED STATES
>
>
>
> Let's hope the Skunks in Washington who allow the illegal invasion,
> those that hire the illegals, import slave labor and outsource get
the
> diseases. Now we have to die so the CEO of Dell Computer and Bob the
> contractor can have slave labor.
>
> --
> Keith
>
>
> By Frosty Wooldridge
> December 2, 2004
> NewsWithViews.com
>
> The out outbreak of hepatitis 'A' at the Chi-Chi Restaurant in
> Pennsylvania last year was a hint of a health care crisis
accelerating
> across America. Over 100,000 cases of hepatitis have been documented
> in the United States in the past three years according to the Center
> for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC.
>
> In the past 40 years, the United States registered a total of 900
> cases of the feared Biblical disease--leprosy. Virtually unknown to
> Americans in the last century, leprosy exceeded 7,000 new cases
> brought in on the backs of newcomers since 2001. Most of the people
> infected in America are illegal alien immigrants from leprosy hot
> spots in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and India.
>
> "And those are the ones we know about," Dr. William Levis, attending
> physician at Bellevue Hospital's Hansen's Disease Clinic. "There are
> probably many, many more."
>
> Now known as Hansen's disease, leprosy arrives with immigrants from
> crowded, poor countries with scant sanitation. However, its new
> presence in America has caused 11 clinics to sprout up overnight. In
> the past six years, Levis and his staff have proved that many
patients
> have contracted the disease without leaving the country. A 73 year
old
> man from Queens, New York and a Jewish man from Westchester County,
> contracted leprosy without leaving the America. As a result, the
> disease is now officially endemic to the Northeastern United States
> for the first time, ever.
>
> Leprosy's symptoms show in bumpy rashes, skin indentations and loss
of
> feeling in hands and feet. They're usually misdiagnosed because the
> disease was unheard of in the U.S. until recently. One man who
> immigrated from Guyana, 47, spent years looking for a doctor to cure
> him from the red and white splotches on his face and body. When he
> arrived at the clinic, no one had guessed his condition, which
> resulted in the loss of one toe and some of the other.
>
> Because illegal and legal immigrants are hired into food service,
dish
> washing, cooking, hotels and day care--leprosy finds speedy access
> across the country.
>
> Another bug riding in the bodies of newcomers to America is
> tuberculosis. In a recent article in the Mother Jones News, Dr. Kevin
> Patterson, in "THE PATIENT PREDATOR," writes, "Tuberculosis is back,
> and thanks to globalization, immigration and slipshod treatment, it's
> deadlier than ever. It kills two million people a year."
>
> Dr. Lee Reichman, executive director of New Jersey's Medical Schools
> National Tuberculosis Center, said, "We sit on the edge of potential
> catastrophe. Government won't take this problem seriously, doctors
> don't treat it, and the public thinks TB isn't sexy enough to merit
> attention.
>
> As it spreads, it will get our attention. Unfortunately, the new
> strains are resistant to all known antibiotics. It'll take at least
> seven years to develop new drugs."
>
> Even legal immigrants don't get screened under the age of 15. They
> slip under the radar. However, it's the illegal aliens creating the
> crisis.
>
> Strains of TB once only found in Mexico have moved into Border States
> of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Since three years ago,
> 16,000 people living in the US developed TB. In 2001, nearly 40
> percent of MDR TB cases were in New York and California.
>
> To show you how fast TB spreads; one infected illegal alien will
> infect between 10 to 50 Americans-depending on his or her public
> contact. If that illegal alien has children, now numbering over 1.1
> million illegal alien kids in U.S. schools, your kids are at risk. In
> the Santa Barbara News Press on April 25, 2004, the lead story
titled,
> "Anatomy of an Outbreak" recorded that one illegal alien had spread
> his TB to 56 other people in the area.
>
> If you stand in line at K-Mart, Krogers, Safeway, Target, Sears, eat
> at fast food or go to the movies, you are inches away from those
> carrying the disease. If they sneeze, cough, laugh or touch your
food,
> you and your children are at risk. To date, over 15 million illegal
> aliens walk around in our communities across America. We know that
> 16,000 of them carry TB. How many live in your community and won't
go
> to the hospital for fear of being caught?
>
> TB won't stay put for long. It's found in overcrowded city
conditions,
> but again, immigrants take jobs in the travel and fast foods
industry.
>
> One illegal in Denver last fall at a fast food restaurant affected
> over 1000 patrons with Hepatitis A. No telling how many he would have
> infected if he carried TB or leprosy.
>
> Is anyone talking about it? Yes and no. Dr. Reichman's assistant,
> Rebecca Stevens calls on patients, but she, too contracted the
> disease. But most public officials turn a deaf ear toward more
> 'important' matters such as war and terror since 9/11.
>
> Where does that leave average American citizens? Simple. You are at
> risk and it's growing daily with 4.1 million newcomers (three million
> illegally and 1.1 million legally) each year according to the Center
> for Immigration Studies.
>
> I remember my travels in Asia to leper colonies where the disease
> 'creeps' over the body until the person is engulfed in puffy
> indentations. It made my own skin crawl.
>
> Not to be outdone, another disease makes its way across our borders.
> In South America, Chagas Disease is a T-cruzi parasite that infects
14
> million people. It's called the "Kiss of Death" because it's
spread by
> the kissing bug and kills 50,000 annually. Desperate South and
Central
> Americans crash our borders while carrying the disease in their blood
> streams. It attacks the heart and other organs. It can't be
detected.
>
> When they give blood in Los Angeles and Miami, they contaminate our
> blood supplies. Nine deaths are confirmed in the last year. Three
> deaths came from heart transplant recipients. They not only got a new
> heart, they suffered death from the parasite in the transfusion.
>
> Can you do anything? Most Americans sit, watch, wait and listen until
> personally affected. By then, it's too late. As you can see, our
> Congress does nothing and our president works to open the borders to
> more illegal alien migration. For those who want to take preemptive
> action, it's time to call, write your senators that you want our
> border secured with troops and you want deportation of illegal
> aliens-slowly, methodically and surely. Call your local TV and
radio
> station and demand attention be paid to this crisis. Write me at my
> email for an action letter of the points you can take to stop this
> nightmare.
>
> Once illegal aliens arrive, along with TB, leprosy, Chagas Disease,
> hepatitis, head lice and AIDS, it becomes our problem. The more
> extreme illegal alien numbers the more extreme our childrens'
> consequences.
>
> Sources:
>
> 'CASES OF LEPROSY ON THE RISE IN U.S.' Sharon Lerner, NY Times,
> 2/20/03 Sources: MOTHER JONES NEWS, March Issue 2003, Dr. Kevin
> Patterson, 'THE PATIENT PREDATOR'. Sources: "Timebomb: Global
Epidemic
> of Multi Drug Resistant Diseases," Lee Reichmann, MD
>
>
> © 2004 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and
> families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on
> six continents in the past 26 years.
>
> He has written hundreds of articles (regularly) for 17 national and 2
> international magazines. He has had hundreds of editorials published
> in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, Denver
> Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.
>
> His first book, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" by Falcon Press is
> available nationwide. His second book "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE"
> by the Brookfield Reader published in January 2002. His bicycle books
> include "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD."
>
> Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell University, teaching
> creative writing workshops, magazine writing at Michigan State
> University, and has presented environmental science lectures at the
> University of Colorado, University of Denver and Regis University. He
> also lectures on "Religion and Ethics" at Front Range College in
> Colorado.
>
> Website: www.FrostyWooldridge.com
>
> _____
>
> "Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the
death
> of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
> _____
>
> "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus
(525BC-456BC),
> Agamemnon
> _____
>
> "I wear no Burka." - Mother Nature
>
> ----------
> To send mail: remove hutch
Paul
> http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty9.htm
>
> LEPROSY, HEPATITIS AND TUBERCULOSIS RISING FAST IN UNITED STATES
>
>
>
> Let's hope the Skunks in Washington who allow the illegal invasion,
> those that hire the illegals, import slave labor and outsource get
the
> diseases. Now we have to die so the CEO of Dell Computer and Bob the
> contractor can have slave labor.
>
> --
> Keith
>
>
> By Frosty Wooldridge
> December 2, 2004
> NewsWithViews.com
>
> The out outbreak of hepatitis 'A' at the Chi-Chi Restaurant in
> Pennsylvania last year was a hint of a health care crisis
accelerating
> across America. Over 100,000 cases of hepatitis have been documented
> in the United States in the past three years according to the Center
> for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC.
>
> In the past 40 years, the United States registered a total of 900
> cases of the feared Biblical disease--leprosy. Virtually unknown to
> Americans in the last century, leprosy exceeded 7,000 new cases
> brought in on the backs of newcomers since 2001. Most of the people
> infected in America are illegal alien immigrants from leprosy hot
> spots in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and India.
>
> "And those are the ones we know about," Dr. William Levis, attending
> physician at Bellevue Hospital's Hansen's Disease Clinic. "There are
> probably many, many more."
>
> Now known as Hansen's disease, leprosy arrives with immigrants from
> crowded, poor countries with scant sanitation. However, its new
> presence in America has caused 11 clinics to sprout up overnight. In
> the past six years, Levis and his staff have proved that many
patients
> have contracted the disease without leaving the country. A 73 year
old
> man from Queens, New York and a Jewish man from Westchester County,
> contracted leprosy without leaving the America. As a result, the
> disease is now officially endemic to the Northeastern United States
> for the first time, ever.
>
> Leprosy's symptoms show in bumpy rashes, skin indentations and loss
of
> feeling in hands and feet. They're usually misdiagnosed because the
> disease was unheard of in the U.S. until recently. One man who
> immigrated from Guyana, 47, spent years looking for a doctor to cure
> him from the red and white splotches on his face and body. When he
> arrived at the clinic, no one had guessed his condition, which
> resulted in the loss of one toe and some of the other.
>
> Because illegal and legal immigrants are hired into food service,
dish
> washing, cooking, hotels and day care--leprosy finds speedy access
> across the country.
>
> Another bug riding in the bodies of newcomers to America is
> tuberculosis. In a recent article in the Mother Jones News, Dr. Kevin
> Patterson, in "THE PATIENT PREDATOR," writes, "Tuberculosis is back,
> and thanks to globalization, immigration and slipshod treatment, it's
> deadlier than ever. It kills two million people a year."
>
> Dr. Lee Reichman, executive director of New Jersey's Medical Schools
> National Tuberculosis Center, said, "We sit on the edge of potential
> catastrophe. Government won't take this problem seriously, doctors
> don't treat it, and the public thinks TB isn't sexy enough to merit
> attention.
>
> As it spreads, it will get our attention. Unfortunately, the new
> strains are resistant to all known antibiotics. It'll take at least
> seven years to develop new drugs."
>
> Even legal immigrants don't get screened under the age of 15. They
> slip under the radar. However, it's the illegal aliens creating the
> crisis.
>
> Strains of TB once only found in Mexico have moved into Border States
> of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Since three years ago,
> 16,000 people living in the US developed TB. In 2001, nearly 40
> percent of MDR TB cases were in New York and California.
>
> To show you how fast TB spreads; one infected illegal alien will
> infect between 10 to 50 Americans-depending on his or her public
> contact. If that illegal alien has children, now numbering over 1.1
> million illegal alien kids in U.S. schools, your kids are at risk. In
> the Santa Barbara News Press on April 25, 2004, the lead story
titled,
> "Anatomy of an Outbreak" recorded that one illegal alien had spread
> his TB to 56 other people in the area.
>
> If you stand in line at K-Mart, Krogers, Safeway, Target, Sears, eat
> at fast food or go to the movies, you are inches away from those
> carrying the disease. If they sneeze, cough, laugh or touch your
food,
> you and your children are at risk. To date, over 15 million illegal
> aliens walk around in our communities across America. We know that
> 16,000 of them carry TB. How many live in your community and won't
go
> to the hospital for fear of being caught?
>
> TB won't stay put for long. It's found in overcrowded city
conditions,
> but again, immigrants take jobs in the travel and fast foods
industry.
>
> One illegal in Denver last fall at a fast food restaurant affected
> over 1000 patrons with Hepatitis A. No telling how many he would have
> infected if he carried TB or leprosy.
>
> Is anyone talking about it? Yes and no. Dr. Reichman's assistant,
> Rebecca Stevens calls on patients, but she, too contracted the
> disease. But most public officials turn a deaf ear toward more
> 'important' matters such as war and terror since 9/11.
>
> Where does that leave average American citizens? Simple. You are at
> risk and it's growing daily with 4.1 million newcomers (three million
> illegally and 1.1 million legally) each year according to the Center
> for Immigration Studies.
>
> I remember my travels in Asia to leper colonies where the disease
> 'creeps' over the body until the person is engulfed in puffy
> indentations. It made my own skin crawl.
>
> Not to be outdone, another disease makes its way across our borders.
> In South America, Chagas Disease is a T-cruzi parasite that infects
14
> million people. It's called the "Kiss of Death" because it's
spread by
> the kissing bug and kills 50,000 annually. Desperate South and
Central
> Americans crash our borders while carrying the disease in their blood
> streams. It attacks the heart and other organs. It can't be
detected.
>
> When they give blood in Los Angeles and Miami, they contaminate our
> blood supplies. Nine deaths are confirmed in the last year. Three
> deaths came from heart transplant recipients. They not only got a new
> heart, they suffered death from the parasite in the transfusion.
>
> Can you do anything? Most Americans sit, watch, wait and listen until
> personally affected. By then, it's too late. As you can see, our
> Congress does nothing and our president works to open the borders to
> more illegal alien migration. For those who want to take preemptive
> action, it's time to call, write your senators that you want our
> border secured with troops and you want deportation of illegal
> aliens-slowly, methodically and surely. Call your local TV and
radio
> station and demand attention be paid to this crisis. Write me at my
> email for an action letter of the points you can take to stop this
> nightmare.
>
> Once illegal aliens arrive, along with TB, leprosy, Chagas Disease,
> hepatitis, head lice and AIDS, it becomes our problem. The more
> extreme illegal alien numbers the more extreme our childrens'
> consequences.
>
> Sources:
>
> 'CASES OF LEPROSY ON THE RISE IN U.S.' Sharon Lerner, NY Times,
> 2/20/03 Sources: MOTHER JONES NEWS, March Issue 2003, Dr. Kevin
> Patterson, 'THE PATIENT PREDATOR'. Sources: "Timebomb: Global
Epidemic
> of Multi Drug Resistant Diseases," Lee Reichmann, MD
>
>
> © 2004 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and
> families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on
> six continents in the past 26 years.
>
> He has written hundreds of articles (regularly) for 17 national and 2
> international magazines. He has had hundreds of editorials published
> in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, Denver
> Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.
>
> His first book, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" by Falcon Press is
> available nationwide. His second book "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE"
> by the Brookfield Reader published in January 2002. His bicycle books
> include "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD."
>
> Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell University, teaching
> creative writing workshops, magazine writing at Michigan State
> University, and has presented environmental science lectures at the
> University of Colorado, University of Denver and Regis University. He
> also lectures on "Religion and Ethics" at Front Range College in
> Colorado.
>
> Website: www.FrostyWooldridge.com
>
> _____
>
> "Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the
death
> of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
> _____
>
> "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus
(525BC-456BC),
> Agamemnon
> _____
>
> "I wear no Burka." - Mother Nature
>
> ----------
> To send mail: remove hutch
Paul