Pop
06-21-2007, 10:05 AM
Unchecked and uncontrolled spread of deadly pathogens in illegal immigrants is a valid reason to not give amnisty and control the borders. I would think to be true but the government must know better?
(I acknowledge the article does not give the immigration status of the workers.)
http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070620/NEWS01/706200388/1004/NEWS01
...investigators were not surprised by the number of positive skin tests because so many of the employees are foreign-born. People born in other countries are nearly nine times more likely to have TB than those born in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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"We suspect many may have been infected in their home countries before they came to the U.S.," he said.
(I acknowledge the article does not give the immigration status of the workers.)
http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070620/NEWS01/706200388/1004/NEWS01
...investigators were not surprised by the number of positive skin tests because so many of the employees are foreign-born. People born in other countries are nearly nine times more likely to have TB than those born in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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"We suspect many may have been infected in their home countries before they came to the U.S.," he said.