This is yet ANOTHER very important reason to BUILD THE WALL.
A public health official in Laredo, Texas, said 20 Congolese migrants were monitored for Ebola and other diseases in shelters in his city and across the Mexican border in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Shortly after his announcement during a Laredo City Council meeting, the World Health Organization (WHO) considered declaring a “global emergency” in response to a massive outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“We have 8 Congolese right now in one of our shelters and a dozen in Nuevo Laredo,” Laredo Health Director Dr. Hector Gonzalez told the Laredo City Councilman George Altget during a council meeting on April 4. “For them, my concern was Ebola.” He said that due to the time element, the Congolese migrants were not developing symptoms of Ebola. “But, we’re on alert to check that,” he said.
A report from the WHO states that, as of April 10, there have been more than 1,200 reported cases of Ebola in the Congo (1,140 confirmed, 66 probable). Those cases resulted in the deaths of 764 patients (698 confirmed, 66 probable). On Friday, The WHO decided the outbreak does not yet constitute a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).”
A top Red Cross official told NBC News on Friday that he is “more concerned than I have ever been” about the current outbreak of Ebola spreading regionally. Emanuele Capobianco cited statistics from the Congolese health ministry confirming 40 new cases over a two-day period last week. NBC reported that the official called the rate unprecedented in this particular outbreak.
Doctors Without Borders responded to the lack of action from the WHO.
“Whatever the official status of this outbreak is, it is clear that the outbreak is not under control and therefore we need a better collective effort, Gwenola Seroux, emergency manager for the organization said in a written statement. “What is most important now if we want to gain control of this epidemic is to change the way we are dealing with it.”
In Laredo, Dr. Gonzalez said migrants from other countries present other health risks as well. He said they are monitoring migrants for yellow fever and malaria. “We don’t commonly see these (diseases), but we could.”
Gonzalez said that 2,800 migrants have been released in Laredo at the bus station in the past two and a half months. He said the city government is working with charity organizations to provide health screenings. “We’ve had flu. We’ve had a couple of potential respiratory infections that could be communicable, but we ruled them out – [tuberculosis] and mumps.”
“TB is an ongoing issue in the state of Texas,’ the doctor explained. “Between Texas, California, and New York, we have 50 percent of the cases of TB and the border has the most. Brownsville has the biggest number of cases.”
“We always have surveillance for different issues that I’ve expressed,” the health director concluded.
Src: Breitbart
This kind of thing is extremely dangerous because doctors are not scientists. They cannot operate on their own without risking losing their license to practice medicine. “Practice” is the critical word. They can only do what is permitted by the American Medical Association, as published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. When you are struck by an exotic disease you are as well advised to go to a priest or and auto mechanic as a “doctor.”
A BIG WET KISS ON PELOSI’S MOUTH , WOULD PUT EVERYONE OUT OF MISERY!
Don’t forget Schumer has the other half. Pelosi in the house & Shumer in the Senate
Love it…they should live in her yard
Amen to that!
Sleep Over @ Flatbed Harris
Time to send all these people with communicable diseases to ‘nasty’ nancy pigliosi’s house and compound in Napa Valley. Build the G damned wall. And you can be sure their dr. bills and hospitalization will be paid for the suckers aka taxpayers stupid enough to keep electing liberals who sanction all this. They’ll foot the bill for this, pure and simple.
People abusing me making fun of me that i have hep c ironic if ebola arrived here.
This is biological warfare waged against Americans by democrats. Fentanyl is the chemical warfare. Both are a consequence of the open-border policy.
Just hope they don’t find a way to complete the trifecta of NBC warfare.
People were warned about this long, long ago. Apparently, sports are a lot more entertaining that supporting the protection of America.
Dimms want AMERICA TO BE COMPLETELY DEPENDIT ON THEM TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.. BUTT IT IS THEIR FAULT.. HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE..THROW THEM OUT OF POWER..
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would”ent it be nice if you could hold the demacraps responsible to sue the party. if hurt,killed, or a disease from illegals crossing our border
The spreading of scary, deadly, communicable diseases is just one of the many consequences of open borders. OK Democrats, had enough yet??
Once Ebola starts to occur in Mexico and then makes it’s way over the border, let’s see what the chicken$h!t liberals want to do about border security. They talk a good game when their own a$$es aren’t on the line, but they’re a bunch of quivering little b!tches when their own well being is threatened. If they had let the adults handle this in the first place, we’d all be a lot safer. The left claims to be so pro-science (actually more like pseudoscience), but they couldn’t foresee this happening? These people are mentally challenged, and shouldn’t be entrusted with ANYTHING…
Many diseases that have been controlled and wiped out in the US can easily be brought back with just one carrier. And there is no argument that most of these illegals come from nations where disease control doesn’t even exist. Although there are several reasons this invasion must be stopped the risk of disease absolutely must be #1. It’s too late after an epidemic gets started.
What?!!-refugees from Congo..!!!?? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!
WE!!! I !JUST PROTECT OUR COUNTRY & CITIZENS..!!!!!
NO INVADERS !!!!! – from Any country!!!!!!
WE!!! – Say, Who and when, not stupid nancy&chuck.
Those already here, bus them to Nancy ‘s Mansion…it can accommodate ALL!!!! – after all, WE!, PAID for her house, when she got BIG GOVERNMENT contracts!-for hubby…
The Democrat Party now has blood on their hands. Because they wouldn’t close the border, American citizens will die.
At one time they were reporting that there are over 300,000 cases of Chagas in the illegal population in the USA, it’s very communicable and no cure. What idiot wants this in the USA? Other countries do not vaccinate for diseases like we do, thus they were screened at Ellis Island, what happened to our rules?
As a retired health care professional, I saw the diseases they bring to the USA, we can’t afford to be the health care provider for the world.
I can understand how the Central Americans are getting in the caravans and to the borders but how are the Congolese people getting here? Are liberals importing these peoples from Africa? They dang sure didn’t swim over! This is another good reason not to just let every Tom, Dick, and Mary cross the borders. We don’t want illegals and we don’t need sickos and terrorists!
I heard some folks from the planet Neptune are in those caravans,
I’m so sick of this shit….. VOTE THEN ALL OUT and only put in people who will protect us.
Amen!!!
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I have a Question for the Government, If to visit another country that has these diseases we have to have shots etc., and it has to be stamped on out passports to prove it , how come these people who ask for asylum in our country (that we let loose until there hearing ) can’t be told they have to leave our country because they have not been immunized. Its a two way street .And a simple answer , They should have to prove it and long enough ago that its had time to settle in your body .Its a partial answer maybe.
So people from Africa are crossing the Mexican border?
What diseases did the Europeans bring into America? The disease nearly wiped out the native Americans.What goes round comes round.