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The immigrants from Central/South America are not responsible for the measles outbreaks.
See this: https://www.cato.org/blog/migrant-ca...cination-rates "Perhaps members of the migrant caravan have lower vaccination rates than their fellow countrymen or they are carrying other serious contagions that cannot be vaccinated against. But for most of these illnesses below, you have more to fear from your fellow Americans than from Central Americans."
Virtually all the measles outbreaks here in the US were started by unvaccinated US residents traveling abroad who picked up the disease overseas and brought it back here.
The immigrants from Central/South America are not responsible for the measles outbreaks.
See this: https://www.cato.org/blog/migrant-ca...cination-rates "Perhaps members of the migrant caravan have lower vaccination rates than their fellow countrymen or they are carrying other serious contagions that cannot be vaccinated against. But for most of these illnesses below, you have more to fear from your fellow Americans than from Central Americans."
Virtually all the measles outbreaks here in the US were started by unvaccinated US residents traveling abroad who picked up the disease overseas and brought it back here.
This.
Everyone who blames immigrants should read this.
I don't agree with illegal immigration, but the fact is, that the fault lies mainly with American citizens for all these measles outbreaks.
I don't agree with illegal immigration, but the fact is, that the fault lies mainly with American citizens for all these measles outbreaks.
Many american citizens are immigrants. I don't think it is the anti-vaxxers fault, because there are not that many of them, and people like that do not travel much to third world countries.
So why don't they talk about vaccination of undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants or poor blacks? Because it does not fit the narrative. Much easier to blame someone who voluntarily choose to not vaccinate themselves.
It gets brought every time somebody starts clucking about people not getting their kids vaccinations out of paranoia about an autism link. An outbreak of measles or the mumps spreads and its the unvaccinated fault. Of course the outbreak is caused by an unvaccinated immigrant, almost always illegal. If not mentioned by me( usually) by someone else. I've also used it to point out Trump is right about closing the border for safety reasons.
I don't think it is the anti-vaxxers fault, because there are not that many of them, and people like that do not travel much to third world countries.
So why don't they talk about vaccination of undocumented immigrants, or legal immigrants or poor blacks? Because it does not fit the narrative. Much easier to blame someone who voluntary choose to not vaccinate themselves.
There are "pockets" with large numbers of antivaxers, and they do travel overseas. The big New York outbreak was started by an unvaccinated US resident (probably citizen) child who visited Israel with his/her family. There is a big measles outbreak going on there, too, the child contracted measles and brought it back. It spread like wildfire through that densely populated unvaccinated community.
We know most of the Central/South Americans are vaccinated against measles. Legal immigrants from the Philippines, many countries in Europe and Israel have large numbers of unvaccinated. WRT poor blacks, Mississippi has the highest rate of measles vaccination in the country, and NO measles. Of course, it easier to blame brown and black people. https://www.clarionledger.com/story/...te/3410263002/
It was a concern when we lived in California. Immigrants would sometimes bring in diseases we do not think about here. Denguay fever (however it is spelled), yellow fever, TB. We would get notices from the school warning us these diseases had been introduced. The most frequent notice was head lice. The others were random. Often we had to look up the disease to see what it was. Mumps and measles were common enough we did not get notices of those as far as I can recollect.
If you asked - school administrators would tell you the disease was re-introduced by people coming from other countries. However if you discussed these relatively unknown diseases coming from immigrants then you were branded a racist for talking about it. You are supposed to pretend it is not happening. I do not know how pervasive it is. We would get notices two or three times a year, but we had five kids and they were mostly in different schools.
This is most concerning to me, especially since there are recent outbreaks of measles concentrated in areas of large migrant populations (LA, El Paso).
Everything we have done in this country to improve health and eradicate disease is suddenly being thrown out the window.
Tourists are not tested, so why would it matter if illegals or legals are tested?
It was a concern when we lived in California. Immigrants would sometimes bring in diseases we do not think about here. Denguay fever (however it is spelled), yellow fever, TB. We would get notices from the school warning us these diseases had been introduced. The most frequent notice was head lice. The others were random. Often we had to look up the disease to see what it was. Mumps and measles were common enough we did not get notices of those as far as I can recollect.
If you asked - school administrators would tell you the disease was re-introduced by people coming from other countries. However if you discussed these relatively unknown diseases coming from immigrants then you were branded a racist for talking about it. You are supposed to pretend it is not happening. I do not know how pervasive it is. We would get notices two or three times a year, but we had five kids and they were mostly in different schools.
Those are diseases for which we don't vaccinate in the US, although there are vaccines for all of them. Neither dengue or YF vaccine are routine in Mexico either, though TB vaccine is. The reason we don't use it in the US is that it doesn't work very well, as evidenced by the vaccinated people who get TB.
Head lice is a problem in schools everywhere. We saw a lot of it in Illinois, which doesn't get many direct immigrants from Central/South America. Measles is not a common disease in California. Mumps is endemic in the US.
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