@Roj5: Actually, I despise most politicians, even the ones I "held my nose" and voted for. Politics, national and international, is a "messy business" where the best outcome is usually compromise which while livable pleases no one. In the U.S., common sense and our legal immigration history dictate at least cursory health checks on any immigrants. Illegal immigration and the current U.S. government's foolishness in disbursing ill, mostly with covid-19, illegal immigrants into the interior actually can/may endanger the global human population. Those melioidosis cases are issues that must be investigated. Yeh! Americans do unhygienic things in foreign countries, (even in the U.S.), ; re: The Aztec Two Step, Montezuma's Revenge and other more worrisome ailments. However, it's the current U.S. government made disease environment that is of concern.