Open borders allow deadly narcotics and criminal gangs to invade our country.But there's a silent killer also making its way across the border: tuberculosis.
America's woke public health authorities are more concerned with equity -- redistributing health resources among racial groups -- than with keeping a disease the U.S. once nearly eradicated from becoming a threat again.
Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to 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 traveling through countries with high TB rates. The TB incidence rate is 60 times higher in Haiti than in the U.S.
In New York City -- the No. 1 destination for migrants -- the incidence of TB is two and a half times the national average and still 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. The single largest national group with reported TB cases is from China, according to the city's most recent Annual Tuberculosis Summary.
Immigrants who enter the country legally and apply for green cards are screened for TB with the interferon-gamma release assay test. Latent carriers are allowed into the country and referred to a local health department for follow-up treatment. It's voluntary and hit-or-miss but better than no screening at all.
Migrants flooding across the border illegally or entering with Biden's new parole app get no screening. Zip.
The CDC is MIA about screening and isolating the infected before they bring the disease to cities and towns across the country. The agency is forgetting its "Control and Prevention" mission.
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America's woke public health authorities are more concerned with equity -- redistributing health resources among racial groups -- than with keeping a disease the U.S. once nearly eradicated from becoming a threat again.
Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to 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 traveling through countries with high TB rates. The TB incidence rate is 60 times higher in Haiti than in the U.S.
In New York City -- the No. 1 destination for migrants -- the incidence of TB is two and a half times the national average and still 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. The single largest national group with reported TB cases is from China, according to the city's most recent Annual Tuberculosis Summary.
Immigrants who enter the country legally and apply for green cards are screened for TB with the interferon-gamma release assay test. Latent carriers are allowed into the country and referred to a local health department for follow-up treatment. It's voluntary and hit-or-miss but better than no screening at all.
Migrants flooding across the border illegally or entering with Biden's new parole app get no screening. Zip.
The CDC is MIA about screening and isolating the infected before they bring the disease to cities and towns across the country. The agency is forgetting its "Control and Prevention" mission.
TB--the silent killer crossing our border
Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to the CDC. Western Europe, Scandinavia and North America are all reporting rising TB rates as migrants arrive.
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