Category Archives: Public Health/Safety

March 31, 2013

Orange County Schools Warned About Potentially Fatal Bacterial Infection

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“There are no changes in recommendations on travel to Tijuana or Mexico,” the letter from the agency (PDF) stated. “But individuals traveling there should be aware of the recent reports of meningococcal disease and should promptly seek care for suggestive symptoms.”


Orange County public health officials are warning parents of students traveling to Tijuana about an outbreak of a deadly bacterial infection in the Mexican city. An 18-year-old Orange County student was diagnosed in February with Meningocococcemia and had six surgeries – and all four limbs amputated. Vikki Vargas reports from Orange for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on March 29, 2013.


Orange County public health officials are warning parents of students traveling to Tijuana about an outbreak of a deadly bacterial infection in the Mexican city.

Reports of meningococcal infections in Tijuana started in January, according to a letter sent out last week by the Orange County Health Care Agency. San Diego County schools were also warned.

The March 22 letter stated that no cases from the bacterial strain that causes the infections had been identified in the county, but had been elsewhere in California.

At least 18 cases of meningococcal disease have been reported in Tijuana since Jan. 4, and five people have died, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Dr. Matt Zahn.

“There are no changes in recommendations on travel to Tijuana or Mexico,” the letter from the agency (PDF) stated. “But individuals traveling there should be aware of the recent reports of meningococcal disease and should promptly seek care for suggestive symptoms.”

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March 12, 2013

San Diego: D4′s Gang Problem Has an Unlikely Spokesman

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Butler’s rallies give a consistent voice to the most significant public safety problem in the district: homicide. The topic of violence comes up often at candidate forums for the March 26 special election to fill the district’s City Council seat.


Stacy Butler holds a rally for peace at the corner of Euclid and Imperial avenues in southeastern San Diego.

Every Thursday, one of San Diego’s most notorious gangsters goes to one of the city’s most notorious corners to rally for peace.

“This is my corner, man,” said Stacy Butler, extending his arm wide to point across Euclid and Imperial Avenues in Lincoln Park.

Decades ago, the intersection became known as the Four Corners of Death for its reputation as a gang violence hotbed. Around the same time, Butler, then a gang member, went to prison after being implicated in the killing of a San Diego police officer. After he served 12 years, Butler pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was released in 2000 after a string of police and prosecutorial misconduct tainted the evidence against him. He’s always maintained his innocence.

These days, Butler’s trying to be known in southeastern San Diego neighborhoods for helping to end violence in his community.

Last Thursday afternoon, Butler pulled handmade signs out of his 1993 Chevy Astro van: “Stop Going To Jail,” “Guns Kill Dreams” and “Pita Si Quieres Paz,” Spanish for “Honk If You Want Peace” and a nod to the district’s changing demographics.

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March 3, 2013

Illegals bringing drug-resistant TB to U.S.

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In the past, WND has reported on the dangers caused to the U.S. medical system by illegal aliens with drug-resistant strains of diseases including tuberculosis. A report in the Spring 2005 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons warned how the influx of illegal aliens threatened to destroy the American medical system.

A member of Congress who for more than 30 years worked as a doctor says the baggage that illegal aliens are bringing into the United States now is killing people.

Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, told WND that it’s not suitcases, clothes or the like – it’s the highly infectious cases of drug-resistant and lethal tuberculosis that are walking across the Mexican border.

“It is something I am aware of and it is definitely a factor to consider in the immigration debate,” Burgess said.

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that generally attacks the lungs, although it can attack any part of the body. The disease is easily spread when an infected individual coughs, sneezes or even talks in the presence of another person. If not properly treated the disease can be fatal.

The disease has been around since ancient times and tuberculosis was once the leading cause of death in America. Among the disease’s victims was the legendary Doc Holiday, who died in a tuberculosis ward in Colorado Springs.

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February 12, 2013

The wild bunch: Romanian gangs buy horses for just £10 and send them to slaughter

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From the slaughterhouses, horse meat believed to have ended up in meals sold as beef in Britain, was delivered by road from Romania to the Spanghero meat processing plant in Castelnaudary, in the Languedoc-Rousillon region of south west France.

Wild horses illegally rounded up by ruthless criminal gangs for as little as £10 each are believed to have ended up on British dinner plates.

Romanian gangsters, nicknamed the Horse Mafia, buy up animals that roam free and work horses to sell to slaughterhouses for a huge profit, a Mirror investigation reveals.

Dodgy vets are bribed to provide relevant paperwork to pass the horses off as legitimate produce .

Our probe reveals a disturbing glimpse into the murky origins of meat that has found its way to UK supermarkets – resulting in the removal of thousands of burgers and ready meals from shelves.

Last week frozen food giant Findus admitted some of its beef lasagne contained up to 100% horse meat – posing questions about how the meat got there and at which point it is labelled “beef”.

Investigators are probing potential links between the Romanian crooks and meat processing plants across Europe.

We tracked their operations in both the north-eastern Danube Delta, and central Transylvanian district.

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Posted in Europe, Fraud, Public Health/Safety

February 10, 2013

Horsemeat scandal blamed on international fraud by mafia gangs

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DNA testing of food to be stepped up following fears there has been criminal activity on an international scale.


Environment secretary Owen Paterson wants to see more DNA testing on food products.

Organised criminal gangs operating internationally are suspected of playing a major role in the horsemeat scandal that has seen supermarket shelves cleared of a series of products and triggered concerns about the contamination of the UK’s food chain.

Sources close to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Food Standards Agency said it appeared that the contamination of beefburgers, lasagne and other products was the result of fraud that had an “international dimension”.

Experts within the horse slaughter industry have told the Observer there is evidence that both Polish and Italian mafia gangs are running multimillion-pound scams to substitute horsemeat for beef during food production. There are claims that vets and other officials working within abattoirs and food production plants are intimidated into signing off meat as beef when it is in fact cheaper alternatives such as pork or horse.

In an attempt to reassure the public that Britain’s food chain was not victim to systemic fraud, the environment secretary Owen Paterson on Saturday met representatives from the big four supermarkets, retail bodies and leading food producers to thrash out a plan to increase the amount of DNA testing of food.

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September 20, 2012

‘Furious’ report slams ‘disregard’ for public safety as DOJ officials quit

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“This failure reflected a significant lack of oversight and urgency by both ATF and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, and a disregard by both for the safety of individuals in the United States and Mexico,” the report said.


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Posted in Democrats/Progressives, Eric Holder, Gun Rights, Law & Courts, Mexico/Central America, Public Health/Safety, Radicals

August 28, 2012

Steve King: TSA Gives Grandma ‘The Spread-Eagle Search’ While ’20-Year-Old Middle Eastern Male Waltzes Through’

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During the same event, Rep. Steve King criticized multicultural groups at Iowa State University, recalling a time he browsed through the school’s directory of student organizations after speaking on the campus several years ago. “It started with Asians and it ended with Zeitgeist, so from A to Z, and most of them were victims’ groups — victimology — people that feel sorry for themselves, and they’re out there recruiting our young people to be part of the group that feels sorry for themselves,” King said.


Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa speaks in Washington.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Monday that the TSA’s security screening in U.S. airports needs to be more selective so grandmothers don’t get “the spread-eagle search” while a “20-year-old Middle Eastern male waltzes through with a smirk on his face.”

During a town hall meeting in Le Mars, Iowa, King told attendees that he disagrees with federal officials who think that airport security should follow a uniform procedure for passenger screening.

“As America, we’ve decided that we’re going to process everybody the same,” King said. “So that means the 75-year-old grandmother gets the spread-eagle search and while that happens, maybe the 20-year-old Middle Eastern male waltzes through with a smirk on his face. I’m not making that up. I’ve seen that. That image will not ever leave my mind.”

“But we have to do that, apparently, because we’re so squeamish about making judgment calls that we’ve put everybody through a formula and a process so that everybody gets searched, and I don’t know if we’ll ever get away from that,” King added.

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August 19, 2012

Third World Diseases Making A Comeback In The USA Via Illegal Immigrants

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Currently, many of these diseases are most prevalent in the states along the border with Mexico. For example, in El Paso, tuberculosis cases are twice as high as the national average.

Political correctness can be deadly. Especially when it comes to Third World diseases slipping through and around America’s borders. And even more worrisome given the political bottlenecks that prevent new and effective antibiotics from entering the market.

A number of diseases once thought to be unknown or eradicated in the U.S. are becoming prevalent again. I’m talking about rare and deadly diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, and leprosy.

We’re also beginning to see outbreaks of diseases common in Third World countries, but never before seen here – diseases like West Nile Virus and Dengue Fever.

Often it’s illegal immigrants who bring these diseases into the country. Illegal immigrants obviously don’t undergo an initial health screening required of permanent residents who are entering the country legally.

In fact, many cross the border because they are ill, so they can latch onto free healthcare services. Once here, illegal immigrants may pass on these deadly diseases to people they work with, healthcare workers, and lawful citizens.

Currently, many of these diseases are most prevalent in the states along the border with Mexico. For example, in El Paso, tuberculosis cases are twice as high as the national average. You may think if you don’t live near the border that you don’t have to worry about rare or exotic disease outbreaks, but you might be surprised to read some of the states that top the list for exotic disease.

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August 8, 2012

Mexico vacationers swim at highly contaminated beaches

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The monitoring of water quality at the beaches of Mexico underestimates the level of contamination that is registered at tourist destinations, said Pierre Terra, coordinator of the Greenpeace of Mexico Oceans Campaign.

The beaches of Veracruz, Acapulco, Zihuatanejo, Puerto Vallarta, Bahía de Banderas and Compostela are registering elevated levels of contamination this vacation season.

In 22 out of 29 tourist destination beaches where the Environmental and Natural Resources Ministry (SEMARNAT, for its initials in Spanish) performed water quality tests of ocean waters, the levels of enterococcus found were greater than the threshold for health risk.

According to the most recent results of the Water Qulaity Monitoring System of Priority Beaches (SISPLAYAS, for its intials in Spanish), which were on July 11 and distributed this week, the highest levels are in Regatas, in Veracruz, with 24,196 enterococcus per 100 milliliters of water. Rincón de Guayabitos 1, of Compostela, had the same quantity and Carabalí, in Acapulco, had 7,270.

The criteria established by SEMARNAT indicate a health risk is present when the readings exceed 200 enterococcus per 100 milliliters of water.

“This level represents a 5 to 10 percent risk of gastrointestinal illness and 1.9 to 3.9 percent risk of acure respiratory infections,” said Cofepris is their summer pre-vacation report dated July 6.

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July 20, 2012

Third World food can seriously damage your health: Spate of convictions for immigrant takeaway owners

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Rotting chickens, mouse droppings, dead flies and live cockroaches – just some of the reasons for a series of convictions for Third World takeaway owners across Great Britain in recent weeks.

The first instance comes from Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets, where the owner of Muhib Indian Cuisine was banned from running restaurants after rotting mice and a live cockroach were found in his curry house.

Batir Miah, 40, director of Rayhill Ltd which ran the Bengali restaurant, admitted seven breaches of European Commission and food hygiene regulations.

Three rotting mice at various stages of decomposition were discovered on a sticky trap, and a large oriental cockroach was found in the kitchen, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

Environmental health officers from Tower Hamlets council said there was ‘no area in the kitchen or basement that was free from the presence of mice’.

Mouse droppings were found in boxes of lettuces, tomatoes and peppers, as well as in takeaway containers.

Miah was fined £7,000, ordered to pay £3,000 costs and banned from managing any restaurant or food outlet.

In the same week, a Hull takeaway was shut down after staff were found using dirty cloths to clean the kitchen.

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