Back to the Victorians: Rare infectious diseases are on the rise in London, with the Tories blaming poor investment in healthcare
Posted on 04/15/2009 1:34:06 PM PDT by Stoat
London suffering from shocking rise in rare 'Dickensian' diseases Mail Online
Back to the Victorians: Rare infectious diseases are on the rise in London, with the Tories blaming poor investment in healthcare
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It may interest readers that during the height of the hippie 'commune' fad in the 1960's, a number of odd diseases came to the attention of healthcare providers which initially had many doctors baffled. It wasn't until some historical research was done that a correlation was found. Many of these 'new' diseases weren't new at all, but simply hadn't been dealt with since the Middle Ages. It seems that in many cases, it was the lack of modern sanitary conditions in the Middle ages which caused many of them but they disappeared when the concept of hygiene became accepted, only to resurface again in the hippie communes of the 1960's because the hygienic conditions were so deplorable.
By saying this I don't mean to imply that hygiene is the root cause of the situation being discussed in the article, merely as a reminder that ancient diseases can sometimes return, due to any variety of reasons.
pestilence
Open borders cause this and National Health has not helped. They have “asylum seekers” (illegal aliens wanting to get on the dole) from all over especially the middle east and africa.
Better immigration policy can change those numbers, look at the US and our own numbers of tuberculosis cases when you factor in the illegal immigrants from Mexico.
Hopefully this is accompanied by them Victorian dresses that emphasize the breast area.
diversity
sing it from the hilltops brothers and sisters
it’s the new religion
For the record, diversity is fine when not taken to the extremes it has been today.
Good luck Londonistan.
Another side benefit of socialized medicine.
Must be all the tourists from Utah.
It might be because they don’t have enough lettus pickers in England. /sarc
Polio is making a comeback here I heard...
What else could it be?
LLS
No surprise to TSN.
Na, they don't want to admit they have their collective heads up their a**es over in Britain and even here too.
What you get when you allow 16th century middle east muslims into your country.
Don’t they vaccinate children in London anymore?
Kind of like TB rates here thanks to unchecked criminal infiltration.
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