Newsmax – by Sandy FitzgeraldSome of the children coming across the Mexican border are testing positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and a Texas health official says that some may have contracted the disease during their long journey north from Central America.
Most of the young people who have entered the country are not being tested for the virus, said Valley AIDS Council Director of Education and Prevention Oscar Lopez in McAllen, Texas, reports ABC affiliate KRGV.
Lopez said the council is only testing children likely to remain in the United States for the long term.
Hundreds of children have been tested, and only 0.5 percent of the results were
positive.
“They do get screened and get a fantastic education with the different programs that are part of sex education, counseling and testing if they want or need it,” Lopez told KRGV.
Lopez said most of the Central American families don’t realize the dangers their children will be exposed to when they make the long journey north to the United States, and as a result, the children may be exploited, exposing them to contracting AIDS.
“(They) don’t realize the exploitation that happens to children on a 2,000-mile trek. We’ve had reports of youth who have been exploited … violated. It does happen,” he said.
Children who do test positive will receive an education that “is actually much better than what is offered to youth at schools. Our state does not offer any education that is not abstinence only,” said Lopez.
Meanwhile, some children are not being tested and are being sent back to their countries of origin, and many have acquired HIV on their way to the United States, said Lopez.
“Some of them, unfortunately, will be sent home in worse shape from when they got here,” Lopez said.
HIV/AIDs is a serious issue along the border, reports The Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas. An estimated one of every six people in the United States already do not know they are infected, and only one in four have the virus under control.
Border populations are especially affected, the paper reports, because of complications ranging from fear of deportation to homophobia, poverty, and limited access to quality health care.
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“ ‘I’ve talked to border patrol down in McAllen. They’ve seen TB; they’ve seen chicken pox; they’ve seen scabies. And according to Border Patrol, 4 or 5 of their agents have tested positive for those diseases.’ ”
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/06/27/report-border-patrol-looking-to-house-immigrants-in-abandoned-buildings-along-rio-grande/
“So far a slew of sicknesses have been brought into the U.S. by the recent tidal wave of illegal immigrants. Breitbart Texas recently reported on an outbreak of scabies in one housing facility for unaccompanied border minors–the infestation was contracted by numerous Border Patrol agents. Other additional illnesses have also been noted. ‘We are starting to see chicken pox, MRSA staph infections, we are starting to see different viruses,’ Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agent Chris Cabrera told ABC 15.
Such illnesses ‘keep increasing logarithmically as long as you have people to infect,’ Vliet said. ‘So once the flu bug, TB, or any infectious disease is released–once they are brought across the border–they’re just going to keep infecting more people. One person can infect a thousand people, and then that thousand can infect thousands more. There is an exponential increase.’ ”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/27/Doctor-Risk-of-Diseases-Brought-by-Migrants-Not-Being-Taken-Seriously
“Children who do test positive will receive an education that “is actually much better than what is offered to youth at schools. Our state does not offer any education that is not abstinence only,” said Lopez.”
WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT EDUCATION!!?? 😡 What about the people who they spread the virus to who don’t know about it? What about them? Aren’t they more important?
Enough with the “think of the children” crap and start thinking about THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, you treasonous sickos!!!
Unfrigginbelievable!!
AMEN NC, it blows me away to think of these illegals steaming into Texas and bringing all kinds of diseases with them. Oh no though, our government wants the American people to think about these immigrants, but who thinks of the American people and what this will bring to our people on our side of the border? It’s so frustrating to even think about! 🙁
0.5% is a high figure, not an ‘only’.
Contracted HIV? What country’s labs created HIV. And in what country have those immigrant children just entered?
Perhaps the illegal immigrant children haven’t actually “contract” HIV so much as HIV has just been given to them in an innoculation.
Little HIV bombs walking among the American people.
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