Ah declah, just the other day I had a case of The Vapors.
Posted on 04/15/2009 1:34:06 PM PDT by Stoat
London is in the grip of a startling rise in diseases associated with Victorian times, figures disclose today.
Rare infectious illnesses including typhoid, whooping cough and scarlet fever have soared by 166 per cent in the past two years.
Infection rates in the capital are markedly higher than the national averages, warned Justine Greening, the shadow minister for London who assembled the figures.
They include a staggering 214 per cent increase in cases of mumps - up from 125 in 2007 to 393 last year. The disease is easily prevented with vaccine. The rise could be a result of parents shunning the MMR jab after now debunked claims in 2001 that it might be linked to autism. Mumps in adults can lead to hearing loss and damage the nervous system.
Whooping cough cases quadrupled in the five years to 2007, from 63 to 252. The disease is highly contagious, with infections often lasting months. Symptoms include choking spells and vomiting and can cause death, especially in young infants.
Cases of scarlet fever, which causes high fevers, rashes, and even severe damage to internal organs, are up 153 per cent since 2005, with 501 infected in London last year.
Typhoid, associated with poor sanitation and hygiene, has risen steadily since 2004, from 45 to 127 cases per year.
The Conservatives claimed the Government was partly to blame for failing to invest enough in public health and to appoint school nurses.
Ms Greening, the Putney MP, said: "The rise of these highly-infectious and potentially fatal diseases in our city is truly alarming.
"The Government must do more to ensure the public health of Londoners."
What else could it be?
Not much else that I can imagine. The politicians of course want to use it as a justification to spend (waste) more money and as political ammo and some think that it's 'exclusively' because people aren't getting their children immunized, but it all comes back to, in my mind, a population that is growing too fast with too many diverse (and intentionally divergent) cultures who are not being assimilated into the preexisting (western) culture and the workforce.
As other astute posters here have mentioned, we are also seeing a similar situation as this in the USA largely from the illegal Mexican populations.
Turd world diseases.
Um ... yes, Islam is a pestilence.
Keeping in mind these are “staggering” increases from an annual incidence around 100 to an annual incidence around 300, in a population of multi-millions. It’s of concern, of course, especially if one hasn’t had the available vaccinations, but still very small numbers involved.
Makes you wonder if it isn’t another failure of socialized medicine....
Ah declah, just the other day I had a case of The Vapors.
You mean, like these Muslims screaming at protesting Afghan women: “Death to the slaves of Christians.”?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7999875.stm
Did it turn you japanese?
A simple demographic survey of the sufferers will show whether the majority of those catching these diseases are native Britons who travel to far-off areas of the world, and return; or are immigrants from those places, into Britain.
AIDS made its way from Africa through a Canadian airline’s native Canadian gay male steward. Or something on those lines...
Did it turn you japanese?
Oh hush now, you Yankee ruffian.
This spike in deadly diseases wouldn't be related to the rise in "Asians" and their welfare-supported multiple wives, would it?
Getting to the Change of Life, are you?
I believe the Victorian era was when the collars moved upward around the chin with lace and tight buttons.
The covering-up of the hooters supposedly was going to cut down on all the diseases.
Among others ... From Washington City to the Horn of Africa ...
I agree that it hasn't reached pandemic proportions yet, but some of the diseases involved, such as whooping cough, are highly contagious and so when you're talking about several hundred additional cases over the norm, this is still worth taking note of because each one of those patients has the potential of quickly infecting many more.
True, it must “cost too much” to innouclate children for childhood diseases. Maybe parents are concerned about detrimental effects of vaccinations. Who knows?
This is also why I live OUTSIDE the cities.
And TB... a disease that was unheard of in the US for decades, has now come back. Why?? Political correctness will not permit my mentioning the reasons.
I agree it’s a concern, just as similar resurgence of some contagious diseases is in the U.S. Unfortunately, many people haven’t been vaccinated for what were (until recently) the standard contagious illnesses, because they believed there was no risk of exposure to the disease. Oops.
Umm... Did you read the article?
The speculation that it may be related to decreased vaccination rates because of the "vaccines-cause-autism" crap appears to be a reasonable guess.
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