LePage Heckled Over Remarks About Asylum Seekers [WATCH]

Gov. Paul LePage was heckled at his latest town hall meeting for calling asylum seekers "the biggest problem in our state."

During the event in Freeport on Tuesday, LePage said asylum seekers don’t get medical assessments and can bring foreign diseases to Maine.

“And what happens is you get hepatitis C, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, the ‘ziki fly,’ all these other foreign type of diseases that find a way to our land,” the governor said.

One woman responded by shouting "shame on you governor, shame on you." Others got up and walked out of the event.

Health experts say there's no data to back up the governor's claim that asylum seekers are spreading infectious diseases in Maine.

"I don't think the governor has a really good grasp of public health," Megan Hannan, executive director of the Frannie Peabody Center in Portland, told ABC News.

According to ABC, the governor's comment about "ziki fly" was likely a reference to Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that may be linked to babies being born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains.