Between Ebola and Entero Virus D 68 and the upswing in TB and other diseases the policy of allowing flights from ebola areas and inviting and open borders... is a public health time bomb. It is essentially a War on our Children. I know some will say but how do you know Entero D68 came of the illegal immigrants who were shipped all around america... well here is a starter... http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/cdc-speaks-on-enterovirus-link-to-illegal-alien-kids/ ..... However, evidence buried in peer-reviewed medical journals provides support for the argument enterovirus D-68, or EV-D68, in the United States was a relatively rare disease. The EV-D68 epidemic occurred only after the surge this year of unaccompanied alien children illegally crossing the border from Latin America, a region where the virus is more prevalent among young children. The CDC records nearly 700 people who have been diagnosed with the virus this year. Five children have died while infected. AsWND reported Tuesday, EV-D68, believed to cause polio-like paralysis in addition to flu symptoms, is widely suspected to have a direct connection to the Obama administration policy of placing across the U.S. tens of thousands of minors who have been allowed to enter without a health screening. D-68 surge coincides with illegal aliens The surge in EV D-68 in the U.S. became evident in mid-Septemberwhen the CDC first reported it had reached epidemic levels in six U.S. states: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Missouri. Thesurge in unaccompanied minors was also evident in September, with the numbers jumping from 16,067 apprehended in Fiscal Year 2011 to 24,481 in FY 2012 and from 38,833 in FY 2013 to 47,017 in the first eight months of FY 2014. Currently, a page on the CDC website dedicated to “Enterovirus D68 in the United States, 2014″discloses, “The United States is currently experiencing a nationwide outbreak of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) associated with severe respiratory illness.” The CDC website goes on to document that from mid-August to Oct. 10, CDC or state public health laboratories confirmed a total of 691 people in 46 states and the District of Columbia with respiratory illness caused by EV-D68. “Many state health departments are currently investigating reported increases in cases of severe respiratory illness in children,” the CDC website continues. “This increase could be caused by many different viruses that are common during this time of year. EV-D68 appears to be the predominant type of enterovirus this year and is likely contributing to the increases in severe respiratory illnesses.” As of this month,the CDC is reporting lab-confirmed cases of EV-D68 in every state, with the exception of Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska. The CDC is currently investigating whether limb weakness and polio-like paralysis symptoms experienced in nine children in Denver is connected with the current EV-D68 epidemic. In 2011,the CDC reportedEV-D68 is a unique enterovirus that shares epidemiologic and biologic features with human rhinoviruses (HRV). The 2011 report noted EV-D68 was first isolated in California in 1962 from four children with bronchiolitis and pneumonia, with EV-D68 only rarely reported since that time. Asymptomatic carriers? Jane Orient, M.D., of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, responded to the Centers for Disease Control’s denial of a causal link between the virus and the surge of illegal-alien minors. “Keep in mind that Latin American children likely have some immunity and may not be sick, while still contagious,” she told WND. The concern is thatLatin American children in the U.S. might be carriers of EV-D68 even if they display no symptoms of the disease. It can be spread, the study said, by sneezing, coughing and the poor bathroom hygiene commonly found among Latin American unaccompanied alien children. The disease can be transmitted by “feces-to-mouth” contact between an infected person showing no symptoms and a previously uninfected person. WND reported last week, a peer-reviewed article by German medical doctors challenges a key CDC assumption regarding Ebola, concluding patients who show no symptoms can still transmit a virus like Ebola to another person by a sneeze or a cough. “Some serious work needs to be done to get to the bottom of this,” Orient said, suggesting a Freedom of Information Act request of CDC confirmations of EV-D68 patient records might reveal important information about how the disease is being contracted in the current epidemic. Enterovirus D-68 was ‘rare’ in U.S. A study conducted by physicians from the Division of Viral Diseases at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseasespublished on the CDC websitestates Enterovirus D-68 “is one of the most rarely reported serotypes, with only 26 reports throughout the 36-year study period (1970 through 2006).” Demonstrating the rareness of EV-D68 virus infection, the report documented that during 1970-2005, a total of 52,812 nonpolio enterovirus detections, the vast majority of which were different strains of enterovirus that EV-D68, were reported to CDC. Of these, 29,772 detections were reported from 1983 to 2005. On average, 1,467 nonpolio enterovirus reports were submitted annually, varying from 388 in 1999 to 3,460 in 1972. The link between EV D-68 and Latin American children was established in a peer-reviewed medical article published in Virology Journal on Oct. 11, 2013, titled“Human rhinoviruses and enteroviruses in influenza-like illness in Latin America.”It was co-authored by a team of virologists headed by Josefina Garcia, U.S. Naval Medical Unit 6 in Lima, Peru, who worked with the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In the 2013 study, Garcia and her medical associates collected 3,375 nose and throat swab samples from subjects under 8 years old, with a median age of 3 years. They found that human enteroviruses (HEV), including EV-D68, was discovered in 3 percent of the samples while the related human rhinoviruses (HRV) was found in 16 percent of the samples. The study concluded: “In Latin America as in other regions, HRVs and HEVs account for a substantial proportion of viruses identified in young people with ILI (Influenza-like Illness), a finding that provides additional support for the development of pharmaceuticals and vaccines targeting these pathogens.” Poor hygiene There is also little doubt in the medical literature thatEV-D68 is transmittedthrough poor bathroom hygiene. A typical example citedis an infected doorknob that could transmit a virus to healthy children for the next three to five days, with a secondary possibility of transmission via the respiratory “oral-to-oral” route more likely to occur in crowded living conditions. A memo dated July 30 from DHS Inspector General John Roth to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson documented the following regarding the surge of Latin American youth being held in DHS facilities on the southern border: “UAC and family units and unfamiliarity with bathroom facilities resulted in unsanitary conditions and exposure to human waste in some holding facilities.” The same memo said: “Many UAC and family units require treatment for communicable diseases, including respiratory illnesses, tuberculosis, chicken pox, and scabies.” Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/cdc-speaks-on-enterovirus-link-to-illegal-alien-kids/#ih5348qyc4i6Q1a1.99
The War Continues despite requests for GOP lawmakers to close down air travel from ebola impacted regions. What on God's green earth... could possible allow this administration to continue to risk our children and our country... for absolutely no upside. The ebola areas will be much better off if we are not spending our resources fighting the disease here. This is the adminstrations War on Americans. ---- this was posted on the ebola thread. https://gma.yahoo.com/lawmakers-see...ricken-region-002000464--abc-news-health.html The White House has said it is not currently considering placing restrictions on travelers from West African countries. "That's something that is not on the table at this point,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday. “Shutting down travel to that area of the world would prevent the expeditious flow of personnel and equipment into the region, and the only way for us to stop this outbreak and to eliminate any risk from Ebola to the American public is to stop this outbreak at the source.” “We are mobilizing significant resources to make sure that supplies and personnel can get to the affected region and start meeting the needs of the affected region so that we can stop the outbreak there. And that's why, right now, the travel ban is not on the table,” he added. After a two-hour emergency meeting with his team at the White House Wednesday, President Obama said the U.S., with the help of the international community, must focus on containing the “raging epidemic” in West Africa in order to prevent Ebola from spreading back home. “I am absolutely confident that we can prevent a serious outbreak of the disease here in the United States. But it becomes more difficult to do so if this epidemic of Ebola rages out of control in West Africa. If it does, then it will spread globally in an age of, you know, frequent travel and, you know, the kind of constant interactions that people have across borders,” Obama said. “It is very important for us to understand that the investment we make in helping Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea deal with this problem is an investment in our own public health.”
You seem to have no clear ability to understand cause and effect and what limits politics have in addressing real life. This adversarial theme of "Republicans" vs "Democrats" is atrociously stupid at times on here. Ebola outbreaks and the Democratic party have almost NOTHING to do with each other. The only specific link between Washington and virus containment is perhaps the need for universal health care and maintaining decent health care procedures. Anything I've read about American politics suggests that it has been mostly Republican party officials trying to block medicare reforms not Democrats. But that seems to be the irony on plenty of topics here, it's like this forum is one of the last bastions of disgruntled, confused older white men who bleed Republican and see every topic as a black and white "us vs them" thing. One can only hope that this forum is not representative of mainstream America at all. Viruses don't care about your border, what political party you favor, or the colour of your skin. You can't shoot a virus with your handgun. Perhaps this is why you fear them. And fear often feeds ignorance and creates problems.
you do not seem to understand that the President has the ability to suspend flights from ebola impacted areas and refuses to do so. and while I also do not like establishment republicans... at all.... I see the John Boehner has stated he wants to see flights suspended and he speaks of calling Congress back to do something. Now, is he also an amnesty traitor... yes... but at least he is currently acting like he wants to do something to protect our country from the threat of ebola. in short what you wrote is total nonsense. finally, it was the democats who could have provided universal healthcare as they had the votes. what they provided us was insurance company care.
Are you serious? Obama is president. He directs CDC, State Department and other agencies. He has ample authority to ban travel from areas where diseases are rampant. Instead he refuses to do a damn thing to limit the threat faced by americans, either from africa or latin america. So it is perfectly appropriate to blame him and his party for their abysmal leadership. So in your view, the 30 odd countries who have enacted travel bans are just clueless victims of right wing hysteria?
I saw you replied to douche bag .... you should have said "You know who writes that asinine drivel in Salon & Huff Post"? Having him on Ignore is nice. I only see his idiotic replies when he's quoted. And those replies are that of a true mental midget that are short one liners never with any facts.