U.S. Syphilis Cases Surge to Highest Level in 70 Years
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/u-s-syphilis-cases-surge-to-highest-level-in-70-years/Last summer, doctors in Texas expressed concern that the illegal immigrants entering the nation as a result of Biden’s lax border control policies were not being tested for readily transmittable infectious diseases…like syphilis.
“CDC has comprehensive surveillance systems to track communicable diseases (diseases that can be transmitted to others) for people in the U.S.,” Bligh said. “However, CDC does not track diseases by immigration status.”
Between 2014 and 2019, approximately 445 out of every 100,000 tested immigrants and refugees were positive for some form of syphilis, per the CDC.
The CDC website states that “syphilis tests must be performed at the time of the immigration medical examination and at the laboratory stated in the panel physician agreement” — but some doctors are skeptical.
“They are not being tested for COVID as they come across [the border], much less for syphilis,” [James Hodges, M.D., an internist in Waco, Texas], told [Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel].
…A spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services told Fox News Digital on Thursday that they are unable to quantify the impact of immigration on reported syphilis cases in Texas.
Syphilis cases are at its highest in a long time. A lot due to illegal immigration.
