Our two U.S. Senators, Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, plus Congresswoman Loren Underwood, are seeking a “thorough and urgent” policy review of the McHenry County Jail, according to the Associated Press.
These legislative luminaries have a “serious concern” about jail conditions, as if the illegal aliens, which the article calls “immigrant detainees,” caught the mumps from a bunk or a table at the McHenry County Jail.
Let’s see.
The folks entering the jail are given a medical exam.
When mumps are found, they are isolated from the rest of the incarcerated.
One can only wonder what else the Congress folks expect.
Would they prefer that those with mumps be spreading the disease among the public?
Under baby can minister to their nursing needs in a good photo op.
Then she can cuss out the “Racist Sheriff” for confining these poor, misunderstood invaders.
Yeah, well…they don’t send their best, you know.
Where have I heard that before?
If you don’t embrace the cultural diversity, you’re a racist…and off sick for a week.
Great comment, Fatty. If she can find that “racist Sheriff.”
More blah,blah, blah… from hazbeens
Well, well, well!
What do we have here!
A bunch of Democrats continuing with the party protocol to create problems!
Take note everyone, these people must be unseated at the next election!
If a bunch of diseased people were coming across the border, most normal people would call for securing the border and making sure that doesn’t happen.
However, the partisan leftist sees that happening, calls for MORE people to come across the border, and demands they all receive free healthcare.
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515-1304
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, 4th District, Illinois
530 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
202-225-8203
Committee on Financial Services; Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy
Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Subcommittee on Aviation; Subcommittee on Highways and Transit; Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
September 25, 2019
Louie Zamora
Acting Field Office Director
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Chicago Field Office
101 W. Ida B Wells Drive Suite 4000
Chicago, IL 60605
Dear Mr. Zamora
We are writing to express our serious concern over the recently reported cases of mumps in McHenry County Jail.
According to a report last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 931 cases of mumps in a total of 57 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities in 19 states in the last year.
According to the McHenry County Health Department, six cases have been reported between June and September of this year in McHenry County Jail, all of which are individuals under custody of ICE.
We strongly urge you to evaluate current policies and procedures to mitigate any further spread of communicable diseases and infections.
Any failure to provide detainees with access to needed health care is inexcusable and irresponsible, placing entire communities at risk.
The CDC says immunization is the most effective means to prevent mumps transmission.
The CDC also lists mumps as a contagious disease and recommends that a person with mumps should limit their contact with others.
The recent mumps outbreak in the McHenry County Jail signals significant risk factors for other infectious illnesses including influenza.
Separately, health officials have echoed grave concerns about unsafe and unsanitary conditions that detained migrants are subjected to in ICE facilities.
If left unaddressed, these conditions will inevitably contribute to future outbreaks of the mumps, influenza, and other communicable diseases.
In response to these concerns, we ask that you provide answers to the following questions.
1. Please provide a detailed report of all mumps cases in McHenry County Jail, including the total number of cases and the ages of individuals affected.
2. How do you plan to combat the spread of mumps and other communicable diseases and infections, such as shingles, pneumonia, and chickenpox, among detainees?
3. Will McHenry County Jail be administering flu shots to all individuals within its custody this season?
Please describe in detail the facility’s treatment and prevention policies in place for migrant illness and vaccinations.
4. How many vaccinations for the mumps did McHenry County Jail facilitate for those in its custody over the last year?
Are all employees, grantees, and contractors who work at McHenry County Jail vaccinated for the mumps?
5. Using the average during the last calendar year, how much time lapsed once on-site officials were notified by a detainee or inmate of their symptoms, before an infected individual received proper medical attention?
6. How many doctors or qualified medical staff does the facility contract with or employ?
We strongly urge you to pursue a thorough and urgent review of current policies, procedures, and implementation of medical treatment at the McHenry County Jail and other ICE detention facilities that you oversee.
We look forward to a prompt and complete response.
Sincerely,
Jesus G. “Chuy” Garcia, Member of Congress
Lauren Underwood, Member of Congress
Richard J. Durbin, U.S. Senator
Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Senator
https://chuygarcia.house.gov/sites/chuygarcia.house.gov/files/McHenry%20%20Mumps%20Letter%20Final.pdf
Well they can volunteer their time to go and play nurse maid to them!
In Underwood’s case it would be ‘Fake Nurse Maid”
Did Dick and Lauren refer to these people as “undocumented immigrants” or simply “immigrants”?
In one of Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Addresses, he got it right. “Illegal aliens”. He said:
“All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.”
But, today, most all Democrats are nuts.
They refer to the illegals as simply immigrants.
How nuts are they?
In a Democratic presidential debate this summer, all candidates said they favored giving free health care to all illegals, undocumented immigrants.
You got it right :
But, today, most all Democrats are nuts. They refer to the illegals as simply immigrants. How nuts are they? In a Democratic presidential debate this summer, all candidates said they favored giving free health care to all ille
I have a suggestion for these three stooges:
STOP the flow of diseases from entering our country at the southern border!
Maybe Underweirdo should spend some nursery time with the people she’s most concerned about.
It sure isn’t the average White straight taxpayer.
Being in the health care industry, I would think she would remember her studies of communicable diseases and how they are transmitted.
The lawbreaking, uneducated and diseased illegal Mexican once again.
Does anybody really believe these idiots give a flying f*** about the health of anyone but themselves?
US Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
August 30, 2019
Vol. 68 / No. 34 (Volume 68, number 34)
Pages 749 & 750
68(34);749–750
Notes from the Field
Mumps in Detention Facilities that House Detained Migrants — United States, September 2018 – August 2019
Jessica Leung, MPH 1;
Diana Elson, DrPH 2;
Kelsey Sanders, MPH 3;
Mona Marin, MD 1;
Greg Leos, MPH 3;
Brandy Cloud, DNP 2;
Rebecca J. McNall, PhD 1;
Carole J. Hickman, PhD 1;
Mariel Marlow, PhD 1
See footnotes for 1, 2, and 3.
On October 12, 2018, five confirmed cases of mumps among migrants who had been transferred between two detention facilities were reported by the facilities to the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS).
By December 11, eight Texas detention facilities and six facilities in five other states had reported 67 mumps cases to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Health Service Corps (IHSC) or local health departments.
On December 12, TDSHS contacted CDC to discuss mumps control in detention facilities and facilitate communication with IHSC.
During January 4–17, 2019, six more state health departments reported new cases in detention facilities, which prompted CDC and IHSC to launch a coordinated national outbreak response.
During September 1, 2018–August 22, 2019, a total of 898 confirmed and probable mumps cases (1) in adult migrants detained in 57 facilities (18% of 315 U.S. facilities that house ICE detainees*) were reported in 19 states (Figure);
an additional 33 cases occurred among staff members.
[* Personal communication, Dr. Diana Elson, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Facility count of 315 detention facilities on August 13, 2019, that housed ICE detainees with an average daily population >0 during Fiscal Year 2019.
The number of facilities might change with time.]
Private companies operated 34 facilities, 19 were county jails that house detained migrants, and four were ICE-operated.
Forty-four percent (394) of cases were reported from facilities that house ICE detainees in Texas.
Median patient age was 25 years (range = 17–67); 846 (94%) were male.
Based on detainee custody status during their incubation period (12–25 days before symptom onset), most (758, 84%) patients were exposed while in custody of ICE or another U.S. agency†;
† U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Marshals Service.
43 (5%) were exposed before apprehension;
and the custody status at the time of exposure of 97 (11%) was unknown.
Among those with data on complications, 79 (15%) of 527 male patients reported orchitis, and at least 13 patients were hospitalized.
More than half (576, 64%) of cases were confirmed by quantitative reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction testing or viral culture testing at CDC, state public health laboratories, Association of Public Health Laboratories–CDC Vaccine Preventable Disease Reference Centers, or commercial laboratories.
Sequencing of isolates from 70 patients identified genotype G, the most common mumps genotype detected in the United States since 2006 (2).
IHSC provided >25,000 doses of measles-mumpsrubella (MMR) vaccine in response to mumps in 56 facilities.
Since 2015, approximately 150 mumps outbreaks and 16,000 cases have been reported in the United States, typically in close-contact settings such as universities, schools, and athletic events.§
§ cdc.gov/mumps/outbreaks.html
This is the first report of mumps outbreaks in detention facilities.
MMR vaccination efforts differ among detention facilities;
facilities should follow local or state health department recommendations for preventing and responding to mumps (3) and should report cases and follow disease control guidance from their health department.
Detainees and staff members at increased risk for mumps should be offered MMR vaccine per existing recommendations for vaccination during outbreaks (4,5).
MMR vaccine has not been shown to be effective at preventing disease in persons already infected with mumps;
facilities should be aware that cases might occur among detainees exposed before vaccination.
Health departments, CDC, IHSC, and facility health administration can work together to develop appropriate control measures based on local epidemiology and the specific needs of each facility.
Identifying and vaccinating close contacts of exposed or symptomatic persons with mumps in detention centers is challenging.
IHSC can look up transfer history and facilitate vaccine procurement for detainees in ICE custody upon request from facility health services administrators.
CDC is coordinating communication among state and local health departments, IHSC, and other federal partners to mobilize appropriate resources and is providing technical support for implementing appropriate disease control and prevention measures.
Effective public health interventions require understanding of facility and custody operations, which often involve frequent transfers of detainees (between facilities and states) and multiple entities with authority for operations and detainee custody.
As of August 22, 2019, mumps outbreaks are ongoing in 15 facilities in seven states, and new introductions into detention facilities through detainees who are transferred or exposed before being taken into custody continue to occur.
Acknowledgments
State and local health departments;
Nakia Clemmons, Gimin Kim, Don Latner, Adria Lee, Manisha Patel, Holly Patrick, Sarah Poser, Paul Rota, Jeanette St. Pierre, Adam Wharton, Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC;
Nathan Crawford, Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC;
Amanda Cohn, Mary Ann Hall, Office of the Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC;
Nasim Farach, Division of Global HIV and TB, Deputy Director for Public Health Service and Implementation Science, CDC;
Dakota McMurray, Geri Tagliaferri, Public Health Safety and Preparedness, DHS/ICE/ERO/ICE Health Service Corps;
Stephanie Daniels, Jeff Haug, Jim Hicks, Jai Patel, Clinical Services Unit, Pharmacy Program DHS/ICE/ERO/ICE Health Service Corps;
Association of Public Health Laboratories–CDC Vaccine Preventable Disease Reference Centers: California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California;
Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota;
New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York;
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison, Wisconsin.
All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest.
No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
References
1. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
CSTE position statement, 11-ID-18: mumps 2012 case definition.
Atlanta, GA: Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; 2012.
cdc.gov/nndss/conditions/mumps/case-definition/2012
2. Rubin SA, Qi L, Audet SA, et al.
Antibody induced by immunization with the Jeryl Lynn mumps vaccine strain effectively neutralizes a heterologous wild-type mumps virus associated with a large outbreak.
J Infect Dis 2008;198:508–15.
doi.org/10.1086/590115
3. Clemmons N, Hickman C, Lee A, Marin M, Patel M.
Manual for the surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Chapter 9: mumps.
Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2018.
cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt09-mumps.html
4. CDC.
CDC guidance for public health authorities on use of a 3rd dose of MMR vaccine during mumps outbreaks.
Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2019.
cdc.gov/mumps/health-departments/MMR3.html
5. Marin M, Marlow M, Moore KL, Patel M.
Recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for use of a third dose of mumps virus–containing vaccine in persons at increased risk for mumps during an outbreak.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67:33–8.
doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6701a7
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Footnotes
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* Personal communication, Dr. Diana Elson, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Facility count of 315 detention facilities on August 13, 2019, that housed ICE detainees with an average daily population >0 during Fiscal Year 2019.
The number of facilities might change with time.
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FIGURE.
Mumps cases among U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, by custody status* at time of exposure, by week of onset — United States,
September 2018 – August 2019
(N = 898)†
* Based on mumps incubation period of 12–25 days before symptom onset.
† Data collected as of August 22, 2019.
Custody status at time of exposure is broken down into three categories:
– Unknown
– In ICE / CBP / USMS custody
– Before apprehension.
ICE = U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
CBP = U.S. Customs and Border Protection, under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
USMS = U.S. Marshals Service, under the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
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https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6834a4.htm
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838 + 33 = 931.
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“During September 1, 2018 – August 22, 2019, a total of 898 confirmed and probable mumps cases (1) in adult migrants detained in 57 facilities (18% of 315 U.S. facilities that house ICE detainees*) were reported in 19 states (Figure);
an additional 33 cases occurred among staff members.”
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What are the names and locations of the other facilities in Illinois in which adult migrants were detained from September 1, 2018 – August 22, 2019 which had confirmed and / or probable mumps cases?
How many confirmed and probable mumps cases in each of those facilities?
Where is the complete listing for the entire United States?
Durbin will still be alive in 2024.
He will have to stand in the traitor’s dock at his 7 day trial.
The jury only stayed out 12 minutes.
The verdict did not sit well with him.
McHenry County taxpayers are even more displeased that these dirty, disease infested Illegals haven’t been deported.
Dick is the piece of garbage who a while back had compared our U.S. Military to Nazi Storm Troopers.
It’s 898 adult migrants confirmed and probable mumps cases + 33 staff members = 931 total.