This post has nothing to do with judging immigrants, specifically Mexican, but to bring up a very serious problem with regard to the fact that globalization, travel, and immigration from countries where disease is rampant has got to be taking a toll on spreading those diseases, thoroughly and furiously, not to mention spreading the bio-engineered parasites designed to infect specifically targeted areas.
Let's face it, folks. This is not a pretty mix, and none of it is being addressed by the powers that be. There is no system of checks and balances regarding the consequences of importing goods from China and other third world countries without close examination for pathogens. There is no concern for illegal immigrants and the pathogens they bring across the borders. Even if there were screening for disease, they wouldn't really know what to look for if they base their guidelines on what the CDC pathetically maintains. And there is no concern for the consequences of bio-engineering that permeates every single thing involving our lives today.
I googled Mexican parasites and here are just a few things I found. I really am worried. This is irreversible damage imposed upon life as we know it.
Gnathostomiasis
Gnathostomiasis: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
Mexican parasite
Clonorchis sinensis: Definition and Much More from Answers.com Intestinal parasites among Indochinese refugees an...[J Fam Pract. 1981] - PubMed Result
Stool examinations of 186 Indochinese refugees and 90 immigrants from Mexico resettled in Contra Costa, County, California, have shown that 60 percent of refugees and 39 percent of immigrants are infected with one or more species of pathogenic protozoa and helminths. The mean prevalences of infections among refugees and immigrants, respectively, were: hookworms, 25 and 2 percent; whipworm, 22 and 12 percent; Ascaris, 20 and 12 percent; Giardia lamblia, 11 and 11 percent; Strongyloides, 9 and 1 percent; and Entamoeba histolytica, 2 and 4 percent. clonorchis sinensis was found in 13 percent of refugees and dwarf tapeworm in 9 percent of immigrants. Rates of infection varied with age and sex. Treatment of these parasitic infections is important and justified because: the prevalence is high; some species are highly pathogenic and directly transmittable; most species have long life spans; and safe broad-spectrum drugs are now available.
PMID: 7462932 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Illegal Immigration ALIPAC - Leishmaniasis parasite migrating North of the Border from Mexico! Leishmaniasis from Mexico and Iraq
All we can hope for, at this point in time and into the future, is to keep our immune systems as strong as possible. And even then, we don't know what will turn our immune systems against us.
Sorry for being such a downer, but this just does not look good.
Kritters