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February 19, 2008

Illegal Aliens Carrying TB, Syphilis and Leprosy Working In Food Industries

Filed under: Anti-Illegal Orgs., Diseases, Health Threats, Illegal Alien, News-Television, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 5:11 pm

In this article they use the term “immigrant”, but true “immigrants” are required numerous health tests to avoid such diseases from entering the country.  These would be illegal aliens.  It seems when Lou Dobbs showed the facts of diseases, he was 100% right.
KFSM  

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS - Between 6,000 and 8,000 immigrants from the Marshall Islands live legally in northwest Arkansas, but those residents don’t have access to most government-funded health care programs. The situation is prompting some state legislators to seek federal assistance.

The Marshallese are in Arkansas through a compact with the Marshall Islands and the United States. Health officials say the immigrants are arriving with diseases and that rules often prevent the immigrants from being treated under ARKids First, Medicaid or Medicare. Cases of tuberculosis, syphilis and leprosy are much more common in the immigrant group than in the general population.

State Senator Bill Pritchard of Elkins says the situation poses a public health threat. He says an outbreak of a serious disease could become a statewide problem.

Pritchard and other legislators have agreed to draw up a resolution asking the state congressional delegation for funds to provide health care to the Marshallese.

Most of the Marshallese immigrants work in the poultry industry.

February 18, 2008

Bacterial Meningitis Diagnosed In Angleton Middle School

Filed under: Diseases, Health Threats, News-Television, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 5:17 pm

A sixth-grader at Angleton Middle School has been diagnosed with Bacterial Meningitis.

Bacterial Meningitis is a serious and highly contagious form of Meningitis.

Meningitis symptoms include high fever, headache, stiff neck, also vomiting, nausea, discomfort of bright lights, confusion and sleepiness.  These symptoms can develop over a few hours or a few days.

February 15, 2008

Man Gives 5 Year Old Girl Herpes.

Filed under: American Crimes, Diseases, Health Threats, Illegal Alien, Rape, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 11:40 pm

February 9, 2008: Indystar.com: Jon Murray:

Man Gave Child Herpes, Police Say.

An Indianapolis man sought by police has been accused of molesting a 5-year-old girl and infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Jose Luis Oviedo, 30.

Prosecutors filed four counts of felony child molesting against Oviedo this week in Marion Superior Court after the girl described touching and sexual activity to investigators, according to a probably cause affidavit.

Cultures taken from the girl at St. Francis Hospital tested positive for the herpes virus, the affidavit says, and a witness in the case told police Oviedo has herpes.

The activity occurred in late January, the affidavit says. The Indianapolis Star generally does not identify the victims of sexual assault.

The girl told an interviewer that Oviedo had threatened to kill her mother if the girl told anyone, the affidavit says. Her grandmother later discovered lesions on the girls body and became suspicious, it says.

Three of the four counts are Class A felonies, the most serious under Indiana law. Conviction on one count could bring a penalty of 20 to 50 years in prison.

Oviedo was convicted of domestic battery and battery in the late 1990s, and he has more recent drunk driving convictions, Marion Superior Court computer records show. Two domestic battery cases against him were dismissed this year.

June 23, 2007

Former Employees Speak Out Against Captain’s Galley Working Conditions – Article

Filed under: Diseases, Food Threats, Health Threats, Illegal Alien, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 4:10 am

Former Employees Speak Out
Against Captain’s Galley Working Conditions
By David Kernodle
News 14
6-21-7

CHINA GROVE, NC — Employees of the China Grove restaurant that was shut down because of an E. coli outbreak are speaking out, saying that the conditions at the Captain’s Galley seafood restaurant were deplorable.

According to one employee, he was treated less like an employee, and more like a slave.

“They’re not taking care of the employees and their customers,” said one employee who wished to remain anonymous. “They’re mistreating their employees; they’re treating them like slaves.”

The Captain’s Galley location has been shut down, after the E. coli outbreak that health officials said could have been caused when employees slaughtered a goat after hours. That outbreak led to many becoming sick, including one who died.

But according to former and current workers there, tainted food was the least of the restaurant owner’s worries.

The couple, who wanted to go by the names Mamma and Poncho, asked to have their faces hidden and their names changed because they worry for their safety.

They said the owner hired four illegal immigrants, including Poncho, to work the kitchen. They said employees worked 12-hour shifts daily, and the owner paid them under the table, less than minimum wage, in what they considered hostile conditions.

“He said if anybody screwed him over, he knows people,” said Mamma of the owner.

Calls to the owner of Captain’s Galley were not immediately returned.

Employees of the Captain’s Galley said they were told the restaurant would not be reopened. Health officials said there are eight confirmed and 13 probable cases of E. coli connected to the Captain’s Galley.

http://news14.com/content/headlines/583945/former-employees-speak
-out-against-captain-s-galley-working-conditions/Default.aspx

June 22, 2007

Don’t Eat The Poultry…it might contain TB.

Filed under: Communities, Diseases, Food Threats, Illegal Alien, Politics — Administrator @ 6:59 am

In a recent Associated Press article. The House has approved $50 billion dollars to aid health workers treating patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis over seas yet failed to do anything about the threat to American citizens health from illegal aliens working illegally in poultry plants, food processing plants, and other public service jobs across the nation.

June 21, 2007

Illegal Immigrants Spread Tuberculosis At Poultry Plant

A tuberculosis outbreak at a South Carolina poultry plant is yet another example of the serious threat presented by illegal immigrants who health officials say were infected in their home country before coming to the United States.

So far 131 workers at the Greenville plant have tested positive for the fatal decease that primarily affects the lungs but can also spread to the kidneys and spinal column. State health officials began testing workers a few weeks ago after the first individual confirmed active tuberculosis. So far 286 employees have been tested.

An official with the South Carolina Department of Health said the plant’s percentage of TB cases is unusually high because most of the workers come from other countries where the disease is more prevalent. In fact, foreign-born people account for most of the TB cases nationwide and the greatest number (25%) come from Mexico.

The situation is becoming a crisis in the Carolinas because every year thousands of illegal immigrants go there to work in poultry, construction and other industries. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports that there are about 300 new TB cases a year in South Carolina alone.

This is because, unlike legal immigrants who must first submit to a health test, those who enter the country illegally may carry a variety of contagious and fatal deceases that will go undetected until communities are seriously threatened.

TB outbreaks at U.S. poultry plants are nothing new because they tend to hire lots of illegal immigrants as recent immigration raids have proven. Back in 2002 the National Institutes of Health published an alarming report attributing a TB epidemic in Delaware’s poultry plants to the fact that most workers were from Mexico and Guatemala, countries where the decease is prevalent.

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