The Biden-Harris Open Border is Inviting Yet Another Horror: TUBERCULOSIS (TB); Tuberculosis: Mass Migration Drives its Prevalence in the United States; Illegal Chinese Immigrant Exposed Hundreds in Louisiana to Rare TB Strain, State Sues Mayorkas, ICE

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The Biden-Harris open border is inviting yet another horror: tuberculosis:

President Biden’s open-border policies allow deadly narcotics and criminal gangs to invade our country.

But they’ve cleared the way for a silent killer to make its way across the border as well: tuberculosis.

America’s woke public-health authorities are more concerned with equity — redistributing health resources among racial groups — than about keeping a disease the United States once nearly eradicated from becoming a threat again.

Reported cases of tuberculosis shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and continue to rise.

More than three-quarters of the cases are foreign-born people who picked up the disease in their home countries or while traveling through countries with high TB rates.

The TB incidence rate is 60 times higher in Haiti than in the United States.

In New York City — the No. 1 destination for migrants — the incidence of TB is 2½ times the national average, and rising.

A staggering 89% of TB patients in the Big Apple are foreign born. The Flushing/Clearview areas of Queens, Sunset Park, Brooklyn and the Lower East Side of Manhattan are the neighborhoods most affected.

Chinese nationals make up the single largest group with reported TB cases, according to city’s most recent Annual Tuberculosis Summary.

TB is no laughing matter: Globally, it has just overtaken COVID-19 as the biggest infectious-disease killer on Earth.

There is no effective vaccine for it, but most cases can be treated with antibiotics — if they’re taken daily, without interruption, for several months or longer. Not easy.

Western Europe, Scandinavia and North America are all reporting rising TB rates as migrants from poorer countries — where tuberculosis is common — arrive. --->READ MORE HERE

Tuberculosis: Mass Migration Drives its Prevalence in the United States Executive Summary

Tuberculosis (TB) is a severe bacterial infection that is highly contagious, difficult to cure, and potentially deadly. If left untreated, the death rate from TB is approximately 50 percent.[1] According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “[t]hroughout the 1600-1800s in Europe, TB caused 25% of all deaths” and “[s]imilar numbers occurred in the United States.”[2] It was not until after the Second World War that TB in the U.S. and the wider Western world was largely eliminated due to a combination of antibiotics, vaccines, and improvements in sanitation.[3]

Unfortunately, after decades of decline, TB is beginning to resurface in the United States. In fact, cases of TB have grown significantly in recent years. The number of TB cases in the U.S. has increased 34 percent between 2020 and 2023. The number of TB cases is now higher than pre-pandemic levels (2019).

One key factor of the resurgence of TB in the U.S. is open borders and mass immigration. The massive, unregulated influx of migrants from countries with higher TB rates than the United States has helped spread the disease. Even legal immigrants and refugees—who are required to undergo medical screenings before arriving in the United States—may have latent TB which then progresses to active TB and becomes transmissible once inside the United States.

Key Findings

• Nationally, 76 percent of TB cases in 2023 occurred in foreign-born patients.[4] 

• Counties, states and metropolitan areas with high foreign-born populations have higher TB rates than those with lower foreign-born populations.[5] 

• Some countries of origin for both legal and illegal aliens have TB rates as high as 60 times the U.S. rate.[6] 

• The government’s health screening for TB in potential immigrants is deficient; some categories of aliens do not undergo health screening at all.[7] 

• Latent TB is not grounds for inadmissibility, even though the progression of latent TB accounts for over 80 percent of active TB cases in the U.S.[8] 

• Some U.S. border counties have TB rates exceeding rates in high-risk countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon.[9] 

• The cost of treating each case of TB is over $20,000, and can reach over $500,000 if the case is extensively drug-resistant.[10]

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