What - Me Worry?

Article by Barbara Vickroy and Frosty Wooldridge

2003

As Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman says: "What, me worry?" It's been said many times by Americans that what you don't know won't hurt you. That statement no longer holds true in modern day America. A sickness most Americans never heard of, Chagas Disease, is already in our blood supply in cities like Miami, Los Angeles and Houston. Recent news stories are confusing on that account. But one thing is for certain, it's coming to your location, soon.

What is Chagas Disease? It's a T cruzi protozoan that is injected into a human's blood stream by the Kissing Bug (Vinchuca) in Mexico, Central and South America. It attacks a person, often times, in the face while he or she is asleep by 'kissing' them in the fold of the cheek. Within time, the parasite races into the blood stream to destroy the heart and other organs. It kills 50,000 people per year south of the border.

With the onslaught of illegal immigration, a blood bank official said, "We've known about Chagas for many years. In fact, there has been a serologic test for Chagas for a long time." But a NY Times story said that the Food and Drug Administration has not approved a reliable test for the presence of the disease in blood supplies. One researcher at a major pharmaceutical company told the Times she doesn't expect a test to be available until 2005. Another blood bank spokesperson said, "We have put so many sensitive tests in place now that getting a blood transfusion is life-saving and necessary. No one should feel uncomfortable about Chagas." Then in the same story read: The FDA hopes to have a standardized test for it in about a year. "What, me worry?"

You might weigh all those confusing or contradictory statements against some known facts about Chagas disease. It is locally transmitted in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Since there is presently no test to detect this disease, legal immigrants can't be screened, and, the average of 2,200 illegal immigrants crossing America's borders daily are not screened for any disease. "What me worry?"

Besides blood supplies and organ transplants, how else is Chagas disease transmitted? It's transmitted by infected feces, contacting eyes, mouth, or open cuts. It transfers by infected mothers passing the parasite to their babies at birth or breast feeding. It can be contracted by eating uncooked food contaminated with infected feces from someone handling food after having changed a baby diaper, but not washing their hands, which is a habit of most immigrants coming from south of the border. Over 18 million people are infected with 50,000 deaths annually. So far only nine cases are documented in the U.S.

In Chagas, like Hep-C, the symptoms are 'silent' until the disease is advanced. But the contagion is active even when symptoms are 'silent'. "What me worry?"

Let somebody else worry about it. Don't you worry that there is no test to screen blood supplies or those infected who may be handling your food. Don't worry that there are few overt symptoms and no medical treatment except for subduing symptoms in final stages. Don't worry that those who carry the disease come from nations where the disease is endemic and mostly undiagnosed, and will consider their symptoms natural. Don't worry that 40 years of legal immigration at 1.5 million a year and illegal immigration at 1 million a year, have overwhelmed our health care agencies. Don't worry that no one you love has been infected or denied decent care because ERs go bankrupt or facilities are so crowded that care is delayed beyond a reasonable or safe time. YET.

Some will choose to follow Alfred E. Neuman's philosophy and not worry. If you don't live near large immigrant settlements in the USA, you may be safe. However, the New York Times reported, "Because the disease is most common in southern Mexico to northern Chile, the threat is greatest in American cities with immigrants from those areas." Others may want to rattle some chains in Congress and tell them that you, along with 70% of the American public want immigration laws enforced and legal immigration reduced to 1965 levels of 175,000 annually. Without enforcing the US border with Mexico, Americans have a lot more to worry about besides mere gun-toting, plane-flying terrorists sneaking past Homeland Security agents. It's called Chagas Disease and it slides over our borders inside the bodies of illegal alien immigrants who walk over from Mexico at an estimated 2,000 each day. You might want to call and thank your congressional representatives for this minor oversight.

Sources: Book: THE KISS OF DEATH by Bastien New York Times
Sam Francis Column, November 25, 2003 'MASS IMMIGRATION IMPORTS NEW, UNKNOWN DISEASES'

Barbara Vickroy, lives and writes in California where the illegal invasion has wrecked havoc on schools, hospitals, highways, sprawl and standard of living. Frosty Wooldridge, is a former US Army Medical Service Corps officer, cardiac catheterization technician, teacher, national radio guest speaker, TV guest, writer and world bicycle traveler who has seen the consequences of overpopulation up close and personal. He admits this country is in for the battle of its life. He will send you information on how to gain access to networks in your state. He is available to speak on your radio and TV stations and will send talk show hosts his press releases when you write him. Contact www.numbersusa.com to take national action or call your Congressional rep: 1 800 648 3516 toll free.

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