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Monday, March 11, 2019

US Quarantines Over 2,200 Migrants Amid "Unprecedented" Disease Outbreaks

As of March 7, US immigration officials have quarantined at least 2,287 migrants carrying everything from mumps to chickenpox, according to Reuters, citing an ICE official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
ICE health officials have been notified of 236 confirmed or probable cases of mumps among detainees in 51 facilities in the past 12 months, compared to no cases detected between January 2016 and February 2018. Last year, 423 detainees were determined to have influenza and 461 to have chicken pox. All three diseases are largely preventable by vaccine. -Reuters
"When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays," said 19-year-old Christian Mejia, who was put on lockdown in rural Louisiana's Pine Prairie immigration detention center along with hundreds of other detainees. According to internal emails reviewed by Reuters, outbreaks such as the one in Louisiana are difficult to manage, as immigrant detainees are often shuttled around the country, and many diseases don't necessarily show symptoms during the contagious phase.  

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hasn't this country already gone through this same scenario with immigration and the outbreak of deadly plagues?? Why would anybody in their right mind think it would be OK to just open the country up to any and all??

Anonymous said...

Ask the democrats, their the ones who want open borders, they care nothing about Americans just the illegal votes they can get!

Anonymous said...

Pur a wall up around California and send em there

Anonymous said...

Why would you expect anything else from the party that thinks nothing of killing full term babies?