Is CDC Hiding Enterovirus Link To Illegal Alien Kids?
Posted 10/17/2014 06:23 PM ET
Public Health: A
disease that was once rare in the U.S. is killing Americans, and its
rise coincides with the tidal wave of unaccompanied minor children
arriving from Latin America under our de facto open-border policy.
Eli Waller, a 4-year-old New Jersey boy, died Sept. 25. He was
reportedly fine and healthy when he went to bed but died overnight, with
the cause confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control to be
enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68), one more casualty in an epidemic that has
swept the country seemingly out of nowhere.
The CDC website reports that from mid-August to Oct. 10, the CDC
itself or state authorities confirmed that 691 people in 46 states and
the District of Columbia had come down with some sort of respiratory
illness caused by EV-D68. Five children, including Eli, died from their
infections.
More than a few observers have noticed that the sudden increase in
EV-D68 cases coincides with the rapid rise of unaccompanied minors
crossing our porous border. These children, often without proper health
screenings, have been distributed throughout the U.S.
The CDC denies any connection, noting that cases of EV-D68 have
occurred in the U.S. for decades, having first been detected in
California in 1962.
"There is no evidence that unaccompanied children brought EV-D68 into
the United States, we are not aware of any of these children testing
positive for the virus," the CDC told World Net Daily in an email
response to an inquiry into the possible connection.
It is true that EV-D68 has been in the U.S. at least since 1962. But
according to a study done by doctors from the Division of Viral Diseases
at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
published on the CDC's own website, EV-D68 "is one of the most rarely
reported serotypes, with only 26 reports throughout the 36-year study
period (1970 through 2006)."
There's often a disconnect between coincidence and correlation. But
we suspect that the jump in cases from 26 in 36 years to nearly 700 in
one year coming at the same time as the open-border influx of improperly
screened illegal aliens is more than just a coincidence.
As the relentless investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson points out,
a 2013 study in Virology Journal found human enteroviruses, including
EV-D68, present in 3% of nose and throat swab samples taken from
children from Latin America under 8 years old with a median age of 3.
Related human rhinoviruses were found in 16% of the samples, according
to the study authored by a team of virologists headed by Josefina Garcia
from U.S. Naval Medical Unit 6 in Lima, Peru.
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