U.S. SCHOOLKIDS AT RISK

U.S. SCHOOLKIDS AT RISK

Complete article at:
http://www.illinoisleader.com/letter...ew.asp?c=21296

The government is ignoring another form or terrorism entering the US through
our slipshod borders: leprosy, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, and Chagas Disease,
now endemic in our country.

In the past three years, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, over
100,000 cases of hepatitis, extremely contagious, have been documented in the
United States. Just one illegal who worked at a Denver fast-foot restaurant
last fall infected over 1,000 patrons with Hepatitis A.

Since 2001, leprosy has exceeded 7,000 new cases, thanks to newcomers. Most of
those infected in our country are illegal-alien immigrants who hail from
leprosy hot spots in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, and India.

Tuberculosis also enters in the bodies of newcomers to America. Mother Jones
News article, "THE PATIENT PREDATOR" by Dr. Kevin Patterson: "Tuberculosis is
back, and thanks to globalization, immigration, and slipshod treatment, it's
deadlier than ever. It kills two-million people a year."

"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." So says Dr. Lee Reichman, executive director of New
Jersey's Medical Schools National Tuberculosis Center.

These new strains are resistant to all known antibiotics.

One infected illegal alien will infect between 10 to 50 Americans---depending
on his 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.