Toddler’s Death Marks First U.S. Swine Flu Fatality

MSNBC: Officials say the first confirmed death in the U.S. from swine flu was a 23-month-old Mexican child who died in Houston. Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the Houston Health and Human Services Department, said Wednesday that the child had traveled with family from Mexico to Brownsville in south Texas. She says the child became ill in Brownsville and was taken to a Houston hospital and died Monday night.

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April 29, 2009 at 9:56 am - Today Show
Dateline: Houston, Texas
Liberals RA Wasteofgoodspace   April 29th, 2009 - 9:49 am

It is time to secure the borders, now!

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Johne   April 29th, 2009 - 10:14 am

Question – Was the child sick before he came and parents looking for free health care? Is it really considered a US death if he contracted it in Mexico? Time to close the border before we have more.

Let me know when it happens in the US!   April 29th, 2009 - 10:15 am

Hey this didn’t happen in the US. It happened in the Independent Republican Republic of Tex-ass.

We don’ need no stinkin’ Federal interference! How does it feel to be on your own?

hrmmm   April 29th, 2009 - 11:06 am

@Let me know when it happens in the US!

Trust me if Texas was independent this wouldn’t have happened. It’s the federal government that is holding up the border states from doing what they want to do in terms of sealing off the border. So please.

Anexio   April 29th, 2009 - 11:45 am

Listen to you people? Don’t you care? This is a human being, a human baby has died and all you care about is closing the borders.

How about opening the borders up all the way, get rid of the border, and let these poor people into the US so they can get some decent health care?

I’m all for getting rid of all borders, they’re just a way to keep brown people out. It’s just another way for the white man to keep us down.

It’s racism pure and simple.

American Liberal   April 29th, 2009 - 12:33 pm

Anexio, stop playing the race card. That is getting old. It has to do with our safety. If you are too stupid to see that nobody can help you. You are welcome to go or stay in Mexico. Have fun.

Other   April 29th, 2009 - 4:10 pm

“Mexican” is not a race

Sicofspics   April 29th, 2009 - 5:54 pm

Just another reason they should be kept out…SEAL the border NOW Obama….be the first of Republicans and Democrats to take the border issue seriously.

CLOSE the DAMN BORDERS!   April 29th, 2009 - 9:55 pm

Article quote:
Napolitano said that “passive surveillance” is “not an accurate picture of what is going on” at U.S. entry points. She had used that term Tuesday…
On Wednesday, Napolitano said that U.S. officials are “actively” questioning visitors at the border, asking questions about “whether they are ill, their travel history and the like.”
She also discounted turning to thermal meters to gauge whether people are carrying a fever, and Napolitano also said she does not believe the facts of the current situation would merit closing the borders.
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What are you going to do: LET POLITICAL CORRECTNESS DICTATE HOW YOU WILL HANDLE THIS GROWING EPIDEMIC???? CLOSE THE DAMN BORDERS, IDIOTS!

demdicks   April 29th, 2009 - 10:59 pm

Of course any toddler or child dying from something so insidious is tragic, but you CANNOT wish away or ignore the fact that the child was a foreign national that was brought in to the country (the article does not state whether legally or not), it is precisely for this reason that the open border policy we now have cannot be continued, “human rights” activists be damned. The scary part is that epidemic disease potential is only FOURTH on the list on most important reasons why, behind;

Violence, crime.
Possible terrorist access to homeland.
Draining of economy by use of public services by people who never contributed to it, thereby reducing overall quality of life and freedom for those who have labored to contribute.

So you see, no one gains by politicizing the toddler’s illness, but by burying our heads in the sand of the potentially huge consequences, we all lose.

To Demdicks   May 4th, 2009 - 3:08 pm

Demdicks, excellent post! Too bad the ones who NEED to read it probably will not.

[...] flu sometime: if not now, then in the future. In the current pandemic there has so far been only one fatality outside Mexico—where originally more than 100 deaths were attributed to the virus, but the toll is now down [...]

redmoon69   October 13th, 2009 - 10:15 pm

ever think that maybe the u.s. government put the socalled swine flu in mexico city where the vaccination quality is poor so that they could stop illegal imigrants and fight the cartels killing two birds with one stone? really? the swine flu epidemic? works i guess.

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