I ask this as these diseases like foot and mouth chicken pox etc,etc had gone and now they're back.
2007-09-25 07:08:17 · 17 answers · asked by ? 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Be careful I asked a similar question and got bombarded with hate mail. Its a perfectly legit question. Yes, they can that's how major epidemics are caused. Someone comes over with some horrible disease and bam, a whole town can be contaminated, look at the bird flu the government tries its best to protect us from such things. With illegal immigrants, we have no way of regulating who is coming here. Someone can have a deadly virus, hop the border, and bam, thousands possibly millions can die...But don't regulate the borders its all cool.
2007-09-25 08:39:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Foot & Mouth and chicken pox have never gone away, they've always been here. However, my children did just have the Hep A vaccine added this past year, previously that vaccination was needed only if traveling to certain other countries (I think there were about 15 of them). However, due to illegal aliens arriving without proper medical screening, it is now becoming more common in our country. The pediatrician told me as much. Legal immigrants are screened, so they are not the problem. It has to be coming from somewhere. Because I do not believe everything I hear, I went on to the CDC website, and checked the statistics of Hep A in the U.S. - you can look yourself, and see which states and counties are experiencing problems, along with statistical changes over the past several years. TB is also another one that is starting to increase exponentially.
2007-09-25 07:45:28 · answer #2 · answered by steddy voter 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Chicken Pox has NEVER went away. Foot and Mouth is from England. Drug resistant TB comes from Asia. The list goes on. Immigrants could be a carrier but so could a U S citizen who visited these countries.Also cattle shipped here etc. This CAN NOT be solely blamed on immigrants illegal or legal.
2007-09-25 07:35:31 · answer #3 · answered by Dog Tricks 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The particular diseases you're talking about - no. Chicken pox definitely never went away. There are a variety of factors. Immigrants are one. People in general travel around the world more now, though. There were some trends not too long ago of people foolishly refusing to immunize their children because of junk science claims of increased autism risk.
2007-09-25 09:52:23 · answer #4 · answered by Thomas M 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You ask if they COULD be responsible. Sure they could. But then again so could a lot of other factors, most notably the increase in travel between countries of all types of people. BTW, chicken pox was never eradicated; it can be vaccinated against, but not eradicated.
2007-09-25 07:12:26 · answer #5 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes!
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf
2007-09-25 07:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by Captain Tomak 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
As well as being linked to rising numbers of resistant forms of TB which have been traced to illegal aliens. Leprosy, Chagas disease, tapeworms, as well as many other diseases.
However, legal immigrants to the US are subjected to health-screening. Illegal aliens and tourists are not.
2007-09-25 07:17:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Definately, the illegals could be carrying those and many others, as they have never passed a health screen to enter this country. They all need to be deported for our own safety, among other reasons.
2007-09-25 07:21:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Chicken pox never went away...are you nuts?
2007-09-25 07:10:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
That's ridiculous!
Disease can travel with anything from food to animals. It's easy to blame immigrants for all societies problems. But without immigration you & I would not be living in North America.
2007-09-25 07:14:55 · answer #10 · answered by Diamond24 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋