Infectious Diseases Making the Border Crisis Worse
By Andrew R. Arthur on March 13, 2019
The so-called "anti-vaccination" movement has been in the news of late. For example, the New York Times ran an opinion piece captioned "Measles Is Making a Comeback. Here's How to Stop It" in which its editorial board took on what it termed "anti-vaccine propaganda and vaccine misinformation". In the midst of this campaign, however, there has been scant attention paid to the dangers of our current border crisis as they relate to the outbreak of serious contagious diseases in the United States.
Interestingly, a recent article from Reuters ("Mumps, other outbreaks force U.S. detention centers to quarantine over 2,000 migrants") failed to make the connection, although it spoke in explicit detail about detained aliens who were quarantined because of exposure to vaccine-preventable diseases. The key paragraph in that article (from my perspective) states:
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