Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles … and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration; Chicago Dealing with Arrival of Increasingly Sick Migrants

Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles … and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration:

Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases. Polio, which paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, was wiped out by widespread vaccinations. In 1999 the nation’s last hospital for lepers closed its doors in Louisiana. A global campaign eradicated smallpox, while lethal tuberculosis, the “consumption” that stalked characters in decades of literature, seemed beaten by antibiotics. Measles outbreaks still occur from time to time, but they are small, local, and easily contained.

Recently, however, some of these forgotten but still formidable infectious diseases have begun to reappear in the U.S. For two years running, polio has been detected in some New York water samples, and this fall, leprosy re-emerged in Florida, where cases of malaria have also been recorded.

Health officials say they are not sure why these and other infectious diseases are resurfacing. One distinct possibility, which officials are loath to discuss, is that the millions of migrants who have crossed into the country in recent years could be bringing the scourges with them, since many are from countries where such rare diseases persist and vaccination programs are not robust.

“The recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly imports to the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, one of the most outspoken critics of official COVID-19 narratives in the last pandemic that later proved flawed.

And the Biden administration, an aggressive promoter of often mandatory vaccination last time, now is offering little public comment on the connection between disease and the porous borders with which its immigration policy has become widely identified.

Neither the Centers for Disease Control nor the Department of Homeland Security would discuss the issue with RealClearInvestigations. Legal immigrants are required to receive vaccinations for a host of diseases, but the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged it does not have vaccination records for the millions who have entered the U.S. since the Biden administration relaxed border controls upon taking office in January 2021.

“It’s not like there is some Typhoid Mary out there, but this is something people are seeing and thinking about, even if they don’t want to discuss it publicly,” said Art Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes the Biden administration’s border policies. —>READ MORE HERE

Chicago dealing with arrival of increasingly sick migrants:

A top aide to Mayor Brandon Johnson says city government is stepping up coordination of health care for migrants following the death of a five-year-old child who had been staying in Pilsen.

Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, stresses that an increasing number of asylum seekers are being sent from the U.S. Southern Border with advanced health problems.

Migrants are supposed to undergo health exams when they arrive in Chicago. But Cook County, which is providing the service, sometimes cannot keep up with the demand, Pacione-Zayas said.

She said city officials are studying how to better partner with community-based health groups like the Migrant Mobile Health Team, which is staffed by University of Illinois-Chicago. —>WATCH and READ MORE HERE

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