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Border TB now a Public Health Crisis

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HOUSTON, Texas--A source told Breitbart Texas that an illegal immigrant from Guatemala is currently being treated for active tuberculosis (TB) at the University Medical Center (UMC) of El Paso.

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet--a preventive medicine physician and former Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)--has practices in Arizona and Texas. Vliet claimed that one of her patients, whose name can not be disclosed for confidentiality reasons, called her with fears that the TB-positive immigrant was putting other lives at risk.

Vliet said her patient informed her that ICE and DHS would not take the illegal immigrant--who was previously deported but is now back in the U.S.--into custody.

A representative at UMC El Paso told Breitbart Texas that information on the supposedly infected individual could not be released. "HIPAA prevents us from releasing any information about specific diagnoses," the spokeswoman said.

She added, however, that "five El Paso hospitals are currently treating immigrants."
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/07/08/Border-Doctor-Previously-Deported-Illegal-Alien-with-Tuberculosis-Ignored-by-Feds
 
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