Sanctuary City Paradise: Tuberculosis Found in Chicago ‘Migrant Shelters’ | The Gateway Pundit

The “sanctuary metropolis” of Chicago has been flooded with President Joe Biden’s unlawful aliens, and together with that flood has come a doubtlessly lethal illness.

On Wednesday, Chicago well being officers confirmed that tuberculosis has been found among the many unlawful border crossers being housed by town totally free in its “migrant shelters,” WFLD-TV reported.

Officers stated “a small variety of instances” have been present in “a number of completely different shelters,” with out specifying what number of.

Because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes, TB may be deadly and is unfold by means of the air. The CDC additional says that “the micro organism normally assault the lungs, however TB micro organism can assault any a part of the physique such because the kidney, backbone, and mind.”

Whereas there isn’t any efficient vaccine for TB, it may be handled with antibiotics. Illegals will presumably obtain this remedy for free.

Dr. Aniruddha Hazra, affiliate professor of drugs on the College of Chicago, advised WFLD that Chicagoans haven’t any must panic.

“The people who find themselves most prone to tuberculosis are the opposite migrants dwelling in that shelter,” he stated.

The town additionally downplayed the invention of the illness and claimed that the contaminated illegals aren’t spreading it.

“So far, [the Chicago Department of Public Health] has not confirmed any reviews of TB that resulted from publicity to new arrivals in Chicago,” officers stated.

“It is very important observe that an estimated 10-20% of residents of Central and South America have latent TB an infection, which is asymptomatic and never transmissible to others, however does lead to a optimistic TB check,” the division added.

“For individuals who do have energetic instances of TB illness, CDPH assigns a nurse case supervisor to every particular person and performs a contact tracing investigation.”

Officers went on to say that as much as 150 instances of TB are reported in Chicago yearly.

Nevertheless, Democratic Alderman Raymond Lopez blasted Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration and demanded immunization necessities for “asylum seekers.”

“Performative politics & harm emotions stored Metropolis Corridor from avoiding the plain looming catastrophe,” Lopez posted on X.

“Anybody who demanded motion to guard our residents was referred to as racist, xenophobic, and anti-immigrant by fringe politicians. And now right here we’re: measles, now tuberculosis each ‘confirmed’ in Chicago.”

I’ve warned Chicago for months about what was already right here. Performative politics & harm emotions stored Metropolis Corridor from avoiding the plain looming catastrophe. Anybody who demanded motion to guard our residents was referred to as racist, xenophobic, and anti-immigrant by fringe… https://t.co/Hf2Rfh0psS pic.twitter.com/dObytxfERC

— Ald. Raymond Lopez (@RaymondALopez) April 3, 2024

As Lopez famous, the Windy Metropolis is at the moment seeing an enormous outbreak of measles, and many of the instances have been discovered inside one of many migrant shelters.

Whereas solely 58 cases of measles had been reported nationwide in all of 2023, Chicago has reported 56 to date this yr, in line with the CDPH website. They’re the primary instances seen within the metropolis since 2019.

Biden’s border disaster is inviting a public well being disaster as unlawful immigrants usher in a raft of diseases that had been, till now, principally underneath management right here within the U.S.

And it’s no shock that Chicago has been hit laborious as officers draw illegals to town with hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of freebies.

This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.