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Originally Posted by Lumara
Keep bringing hordes of Third World people into our country and this is what you get: this deadly fungal infection, TB, bed bugs, etc. Then US taxpayers get to pay for medical care for these Third Worlders and the others they infect. 
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"Christopher Columbus brought at least 30 terrible new diseases to the New World
....new infectious diseases wiped out a staggering 236,000 indigenous people by 1517 — nearly 95% of their population...."
1. Smallpox
2. Measles
3. Influenza
4. Bubonic plague
5. Diphtheria
6. Typhus
7. Cholera
8. Scarlet fever
9. Chicken pox
10. Yellow fever
11. Malaria
12. Lyme disease
13. Q-fever (bacterial disease carried by cattle, sheep, and goats)
14. Leishmania (parasitic disease)
15. Whooping cough
16. African sleeping sickness (parasitic disease)
17. Filaria (parasitic disease)
18. Dengue
19. Septicemic plague (one of the three main forms of the plague)
20. Schistosomiasis (parasitic disease)
21. Anthrax
22. Botulism
23. Tetanus
24. Toxoplasmosis
25. Taeniasis (tape worms)
26. Staphylococci
27. Streptococci
28. Mycotic diseases (fungal diseases)
29. Syphilis
30. Legionellosis (bacterial disease)
http://www.businessinsider.com/disea...ericas-2015-10
OLD Worlders
Undocumented foreigners, bringing in diseases has been a problem in the Americas for a LONG time.
sometimes a bigger problem than in others though.
Bed Bugs and lice are a problem now.
Want to guess who brought rats to the Americas ... and Hawaii?