“hooping cough, also called pertussis, and other diseases are making comebacks, because so many parents are deciding not to vaccinate their kids...”
That’s BS. Whooping cough was all but eradicated until it was brought back in here by 3rd world migrants. Illegal aliens don’t bother with ‘immunizations’.
[snip]According to Dr. Laurence Nickey, director of the El Paso heath district “Contagious diseases that are generally considered to have been controlled in the United States are readily evident along the border ... The incidence of tuberculosis in El Paso County is twice that of the U.S. rate. Dr. Nickey also states that leprosy, which is considered by most Americans to be a disease of the Third World, is readily evident along the U.S.-Mexico border and that dysentery is several times the U.S. rate ... People have come to the border for economic opportunities, but the necessary sewage treatment facilities, public water systems, environmental enforcement, and medical care have not been made available to them, causing a severe risk to health and well being of people on both sides of the border.”1
A June, 2009 article in the New England Journal of Medicine noted that a majority (57.8%) of all new cases of tuberculosis in the United States in 2007 were diagnosed in foreign-born persons. The TB infection rate among foreign-born persons was 9.8 times as high as that among U.S.-born persons.http://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration-and-public-health
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The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that the resurgence of whooping cough and other antiquated infections is because of the influx of illegal immigrants. Dr. Madeleine Cosman, a medical lawyer, says that “certain diseases that we thought we had vanquished years ago are coming back, and other diseases that we’ve never seen or rarely seen in America, because they’ve always been the diseases of poverty and the third world, are coming in now,” she said. She has written a fascinating article, “The Seen and Unseen,” that addresses healthcare in America as well as the problem that illegal aliens are now presenting to the US healthcare system.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/cases-of-whooping-cough-on-the-rise-in-the-us.html