More Reasons To Stop The Illegal Aliens

300,000 CASES OF CHAGAS REPORTED IN U.S.

'We're unwilling to stop illegals who are bringing this disease across'

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By Paul Bremmer

A hazardous insect from Latin America known as the triatomine bug, or “kissing bug,” has found its way to more than half the United States, serving as a reminder that a porous border lets in more than just human beings.

“We have a border security problem, no question about that, and part of the border security problem is a significant health problem,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, an orthopedic surgeon and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

The kissing bug has been known to carry a parasite that causes Chagas disease, which can be fatal if left untreated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are currently about 300,000 cases of Chagas in the U.S., but most of those people were infected in Latin America.

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, made a connection between the large immigrant influx from Latin America and the appearance of the triatomine bug in 28 different states.

“I think that if we have a lot more people coming from endemic areas into the United States, and they’re not being screened for this, and they’re going to an area where there’s the vector, then the chances are that the disease will be spreading more inside the United States,” Orient told WND.

Hieb, author of “Surviving the Medical Meltdown: Your Guide to Living Through the Disaster of Obamacare,” agreed with her fellow doctor that a lack of screening for Chagas is a problem. She asserted it’s necessary to intercept border-crossers who may spread Chagas to protect the public health.

“We’re unwilling to stop illegals who are bringing this disease across, so I guess I would say that’s the big lesson here, that they shouldn’t be surprised. Until they stop the source, it’s not going to go away,” Hieb told WND.

Hieb, who has criticized vaccines in the past, added, “It’s ironic that we’re more worried about vaccinating Americans than we are about looking at the root cause of these diseases coming through.”

By way of background, kissing bugs transmit Chagas disease to humans and other mammals through their feces. The insect sucks a person’s blood and defecates near the wound, and the parasite enters the human’s body if the fecal matter gets rubbed into a break in the skin or a mucous membrane, such as the eye or mouth. The CDC says not all triatomine bugs carry the parasite that causes Chagas, and thus the likelihood of a human actually contracting Chagas from such a bug is low.

Chagas disease is much more common in Latin American countries, where triatomine bugs often live in the cracks and holes of substandard housing, according to the CDC. Chagas infects roughly 9 million people in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in impoverished areas of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

And yet, 300,000 people are currently infected in the United States. The kissing bug has been found in 28 states, mostly in the southern half of the country. Orient said while Americans should not stay awake at night worrying about a Chagas infection, they need to be aware it is here in the country – and symptoms sometimes do not show up for years.

“I’m not going to ring alarm bells and say, ‘Everyone go out and get tested for Chagas,’ but we should be aware of this and it’s just one of the many consequences of not doing public health screening on people who are entering our country from countries that are severely impoverished and have a lot of diseases that we’re not familiar with here,” Orient said.

Hieb, for her part, pointed out Chagas disease is likely to impact far more Americans than those who are infected, when one considers where the infected people are coming from.

“If you let people in who are sick with bad diseases – these are people that are not employed, these are people that don’t have insurance – they’re not going to care for themselves; the American public’s going to care for them,” Hieb reasoned.

“Obamacare’s already a disaster. How can we, in good conscience, say the American taxpayer is deserving of taking care of all the world’s sick? Nobody can do that. So what it’s going to degrade is our own health care.”

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Too Much Attention To Minor Issues And Not Enough To The Big Ones--CDC!

Doctors Chief: CDC Curbs Secondhand Smoke More Than Ebola

Thursday, 16 Oct 2014 11:31 PM

By Bill Hoffmann and Todd Beamon

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more safeguards against secondhand smoke than it does regarding Ebola, Dr. Jane Orient, director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, said on Thursday.

"If you look at the precautions against secondhand smoke, they are absurd," Orient told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. "The hazard from secondhand smoke, unless you're just sensitive to it and it bothers you, are really nonexistent.

"And yet, we have all these … expensive restrictions against these non-hazards — and a pathogenic, lethal organism that can infect you with one to 10 particles, we're so cavalier about?" Orient asked. "This just really does not make sense."

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She told Malzberg that CDC Chief Dr. Thomas Frieden skated around answering key questions about the crisis as he was grilled by Congress on Thursday.

"Frieden evaded a lot of very important questions or pretended not to know," Orient said.

"Certainly, he evaded, despite really intense questioning, whether the White House was telling him they were not going to do a ban, whether he was in communication with the White House or whether the CDC was going to recommend a restriction in travel.

"The CDC claims not to know how those two nurses [at a Dallas hospital] got infected, despite their protective gear, because if the nurses did not breach the protocol, there's something wrong with the protocol," Orient said.

She disputed Frieden's claims that Ebola could not become airborne. It could, Orient said, through germs via "aerosols" that are created by sneezing or coughing.

"Your body fluids have to go through the air, unless you touch somebody," she told Malzberg. "You generate an aerosol if you cough or sneeze or vomit or have explosive diarrhea — and it makes droplets of different sizes.

"The ones that are really, really tiny can get through your mask, around your mask, down into your lungs," Orient said, adding that these droplets could infect "target cells down in your lungs."

The physician surmised that Frieden's thinking is based on a premise that the Ebola virus "does not survive being dried down to a particle of that size, but there's experimental evidence that it can survive for as long as 90 minutes on one of those drops down there."

When asked by Malzberg whether Ebola could, as such, is transmittable by air, Orient responded: "Theoretically, it certainly is. We cannot rule it out."

Orient is author of the book, "Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis,"published by LWW.

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Another Obama Mis-Adventure. Sending Troops To Africa Will Assuredly Backfire.

DOCTORS: 'IRRESPONSIBLE' TO SEND TROOPS TO 'COMBAT' EBOLA

Call for quarantine, banning flights to U.S. from nations with virus outbreaks

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A real-life horror story is playing out in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.

According to the World Health Organization, at least 4,985 people have contracted Ebola and at least 2,461 have died. Several doctors have fallen ill with Ebola, and two of them have died. New reports indicate a Doctors Without Borders staff member has contracted the virus in Liberia and will be evacuated to France for treatment.

“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”

Dr. Hieb said quarantine measures should be taken to control the outbreak and prevent Ebola from coming to America.

“You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”

Hieb added, “If they’re going to use the troops to do population control, which is one of the ways you contain it, basically you just don’t let anybody out. You’d make a ring around where it is, and you’d quarantine the area.”

With quarantines in places where the outbreaks are occurring, even if a person infected with Ebola were to try to board a plane to the U.S., it would be far more difficult for them to make the journey, she explained.

“Could somebody sneak through by going to Pakistan or some place?” she asked. “Yes, potentially. Ebola comes on so rapidly, you would know it. They wouldn’t make it. We should not allow flights from nations that are having Ebola outbreaks.”

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, has warned that the U.S. must “treat Ebola as a wake-up call.”

“What African troops are doing is shooting people who cross borders or violate quarantine,” Orient told WND, reacting to news of the U.S. troop deployment. “Is that what we plan to support?”

She added, “Africans are already very suspicious of us. How will they react to an army setting up hospitals?”

Orient called the planned U.S. deployment a “dubious mission,” warning that the nightmarish scenario could bring Ebola to America.

“There is definitely a risk,” she said. “It seems irresponsible to send more people there when the ones already there are having trouble leaving. Probably anyone who has been exposed should be quarantined for 25 days since the last exposure.”

Orient echoed the concerns of Elaine Donelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, who told WND, “I’m just appalled. Judging from this, the United States seems to have a very confused vision of what ‘national security’ means.”

“But whether 3,000 American troops should be sent into that area of the world to deal with that problem, I do not see the justification,” Donelly said. “Surely there are alternatives in the international health-care networks.”

WND also reported when retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin charged that sending American troops to combat Ebola in Liberia is “an absolute misuse of the U.S. military.”

Donnelly emphasized it’s “not the purpose of our military.”

“I am very disappointed to see this announcement,” she said.

Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed Donnelly to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services for a three-year term from 1984 through 1986. Then, in 1992, President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.

Donnelly explained to WND her concern that the U.S. military is not designed to fight health wars.

“Our military people will show compassion in Liberia, as they always do, and they will do everything asked of them,” she said.

“Still, health wars are unhealthy for soldiers and all living things. Like oxymoronic ‘peace wars,’ such as the incursion into Bosnia, deployments such as this put our troops in causes having little impact on America’s national security,” she said.

American military families will be put at greater risk, Donnelly warned.

“Here we have a ‘health war’ that could cost our troops’ health.”

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