Posted on 11/28/2017 8:26:46 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
The age-old killer scarlet fever is on the rise in England and East Asia, according to research published Monday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, and investigators don't know why.
"Whilst current rates (in England) are nowhere near those seen in the early 1900s, the magnitude of the recent upsurge is greater than any documented in the last century,"
said study author Theresa Lamagni of Public Health England, the agency that funded the analysis.
"Whilst notifications so far for 2017 suggest a slight decrease in numbers, we continue to monitor the situation carefully ...
and research continues to further investigate the rise."
Identified by a bright red rash that looks and feels like sandpaper, scarlet fever is a highly contagious disease caused by the same bacteria behind strep throat, group A Streptococcus pyogenes.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The illness generally attacks children under the age of 10 years old.
Frequently spread by droplets via coughing and sneezing, group A strep can also hide on doorknobs, plates and utensils for hours.
A very sore, red throat that makes it difficult to swallow, along with a fever of 101 or higher, is a key sign of scarlet fever,
along with swollen neck glands, headaches and body chills, nausea and vomiting.
(More information available at the news site)
Rates increasing in England
Attributed generally to immigrants and travelers from East Asia
Hmmm, Could it be tied to 3rd world immigration? Just a thought.
Top UK imports;
1. Crime
2. Disease
3. Poverty
My mom had Scarlett Fever as a child - (Central California) - no one else in her very large family or small town had it or got it.
Dr.s think it damaged her thyroid.
She’s 93 now and in great shape.
Bring brought in from turd world countries.
My daughter is allergic to eggs - which the measles is based on, according to the allergist.
I told the doctor to skip it - he told me he would but virulent strains of measles are being brought into the U.S. from Southeast Asia.
She ended up having a specially formulated measles vaccination administered over about eight hours.
Measles vaccination is based on....
Wish we had an editing function.
It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain what the correlation is here.
I feel her pain. I have developed an egg allergy and it ain’t fun. :(
Mark Steyn recently wrote an article about how if the mainstream press expresses to be "baffled" by some social trend - you can nearly always attribute it to Muslims/Immigration. As with residents of the former Soviet Union, Americans now need to read between the lines of their controlled media..
Importing millions of vaccinated inbred goatherders, and then they wonder how diseases that were formerly stamped out are now spreading again like wildfire? Good grief, how dumb can you get?
Stupid phone autocorrect. Changed the whole meaning of the sentence. Should be UNvaccinated.
Totally baffling. We may never know.
I believe it has a longer incubation period than other childhood diseases, and that is why they thought all the toys and clothing of a child had to be destroyed: they thought the germs were living longer than other germs.
The long incubation is part of the problem, so I’m curious about why the article didn’t mention that.
Could be anti-vaccine types. They don’t realize how much they are putting their children in jeopardy. I guess when they see the kid in a casket, maybe they will wake up.
I don’t think there’s a vaccine for scarlet fever. The goatherders in question, though, probably have compromised immunity and are thus susceptible to everything under the sun.
Even if that is the primary cause, you must keep searching until some other cause can be reported. Doing otherwise would be racist. Global Warming (Equals White Males) would probably be an acceptable alternative.
I know, I know (waves hand in air) - is it third-world immigrants???
Immigrants.......bring their families, customs, religion diseases with them.......................
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