Conservatives: Obama is using immigrant children as a form of "biological warfare" against Americans

[Cali_Democrat]

Right-wing media are falsely blaming the recent surge of undocumented children from Central America for spreading a deadly strain of the enterovirus. Conservatives are claiming the children are a form of "biological warfare" and President Obama and the government are "bringing in infected children and putting them in our public schools" because he's "so obsessed with winning Latino votes." However, the disease has been detected in the country for decades and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told Media Matters that there is "no evidence" of a link.

Fearmongering about undocumented children spreading enterovirus D68 is the latest chapter in the conservative media's book of xenophobic smears. The right-wing media, in their efforts to oppose immigration reform, have previously blamed undocumented immigrants for diseases such as Hansen's disease (leprosy) and tuberculosis.

This year, a surge of unaccompanied children fled violence-stricken Central America and crossed the border into the United States. Many of the children were relocated to various cities and are starting school.

The CDC has confirmed over 600 cases of EV-D68 since mid-August. The agency notes that "Almost all the confirmed cases this year of EV-D68 infection have been among children. Many of the children had asthma or a history of wheezing." While investigations are ongoing, the virus has been "detected in specimens from five patients who died and had samples submitted for testing."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/08/conservatives-falsely-blame-undocumented-childr/201071

[City Lights]

1. Some kook called in to the Thom Hartman show today spewing this crap.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. "Obama invented Ebola so he can call off the midterms", or at least that's what I heard at work.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Shit...you work with someone like that?

Sorry.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. In a medical setting to boot.