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Victorian-Era diseases on the rise in Britain
wwlp.com ^ | 12/23/2015 | Max Foster, CNN

Posted on 12/23/2015 10:01:23 PM PST by BenLurkin

Scurvy, tuberculosis, scarlet fever may conjure up images of a Charles Dickens tale. However, diseases of the Victorian Era are re-emerging in modern day Britain.

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TB is one disease often synonymous with poverty, affecting the most vulnerable. However, health officials warn strains of the disease lie undetected in all parts of modern society and could break out in the future.

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In fact, over the last five years in England, cases of scarlet fever have risen 136%, scurvy by 38% and cholera by 300%, though for scurvy and cholera the numbers are very small.

So why the resurgence?

"Reduced vaccine uptake for example with measles, reduced population immunity for example with whooping cough, increased poverty as well as an influx in migration and malnutrition," said Dr. Martinez-Alier.

(Excerpt) Read more at wwlp.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; cholera; disease; illegalsdisease; illegalsinvasion; immigration; scarletfever; scurvy; tb; vaccines; whoppingcough
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To: Jim from C-Town

Amen. There was a whooping cough outbreak in the Dallas area about 5 or so years ago due to the influx of illegal aliens. These law-breaking parasites and their brats bring their diseases with them, then pass them on to the kids their myriad git sit next to in school classrooms. Just freaking lovely.


21 posted on 12/24/2015 2:24:55 AM PST by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: BenLurkin

Scarlet fever is a complication of a strep infection. (A son was curious about it just recently.) It has nearly disappeared because most people with strep infections are promptly treated with antibiotics.

Antibiotic-resistant TB has emerged from the overlap of the prison/AIDS “communities.” Those who stay out of jail and away from the sodomite scene are pretty safe.


22 posted on 12/24/2015 2:36:03 AM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: BenLurkin

Early man probably formed tribes as an instinctive defense mechanism. Borders are a logical result. Plagues won’t be local events now, they will spread like wildfire. Just wait until the right one comes along.


23 posted on 12/24/2015 2:41:18 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: bigredkitty1
"There was a whooping cough outbreak in the Dallas area about 5 or so years ago due to the influx of illegal aliens.

There would be no outbreak of pertussis, immigrants or not, if the kids were vaccinated, thanks to the moron parents who refuse to vaccinate, and the spineless bureaucrats in school administrations who let them get away with it.

To have an "outbreak", two things are necessary....a disease vector (immigrants) and a vulnerable population (unvaccinated).

Note...I was of the last generation before the pertussis vaccine, and actually had it as an infant. One of the few things from earliest childhood that I still remember.

24 posted on 12/24/2015 4:39:48 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: BenLurkin

Speaking of disease: Considering the fully evolved and incubated AIDS virus AND if reports of the numbers of young people availing themselves of daily and weekly trysts with strangers via their phones are even remotely true then we will see in a handful of years a die off of staggering proportions.


25 posted on 12/24/2015 5:58:26 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: TalBlack

We’ll all be back in the Dark Ages soon.


26 posted on 12/24/2015 6:32:39 AM PST by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: BenLurkin

The obsession with pouring sunscreen on kids in a cloudy, rainy country has also contributed to an increase in rickets.


27 posted on 12/24/2015 6:38:47 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: BenLurkin

It is almost like a biological attack.
And we are doing the same thing here.
We have lost American children to diseases we had eradicated only to be brought back by illegal invaders and their kids.

No one is on top of this in our current political leadership.

Until one of their kids should die.

Unreal.


28 posted on 12/24/2015 6:59:03 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: Wonder Warthog

” There would be no outbreak of pertussis, immigrants or not, if the kids were vaccinated, thanks to the moron parents who refuse to vaccinate, and the spineless bureaucrats in school administrations who let them get away with it.

To have an “outbreak”, two things are necessary....a disease vector (immigrants) and a vulnerable population (unvaccinated).”

Thank you.


29 posted on 12/24/2015 7:03:50 AM PST by Paperpusher
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To: Dr. Sivana

Bingo


30 posted on 12/24/2015 8:18:25 AM PST by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Just wondering how old you are...I’m 64 and until last few years whooping cough was not on my radar...and I had no Vax for it either


31 posted on 12/24/2015 8:20:52 AM PST by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: Wonder Warthog

A few months ago, I scraped my scalp on the bottom of our mailbox and I decided as a precaution to get a tetanus vaccination. The nurse said that the Tdap vaccine I received also protected against whooping cough, which was increasingly common in our area. She said she urges everyone who has not had the booster in 10 years to get it.


32 posted on 12/24/2015 8:23:48 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: Cowboy Bob

Consider the spanish flu epidemic at the end of WW1.
Consider open borders and unchecked immigration.


33 posted on 12/24/2015 8:24:40 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Plagues won’t be local events now, they will spread like wildfire.

I am reminded of spanish flu epidemic at end of WW1- from my reading of cause and reason for spread -


34 posted on 12/24/2015 8:27:54 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: riverdawg

Why were you under the mailbox?


35 posted on 12/24/2015 9:00:04 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Cowboy Bob
England brought this all upon themselves

"England" might have, but I'd wager the English didn't.

It won't be long before people elsewhere are saying the same about America.

Whether we agree with the slipshod attitude toward border security, pathogen screening, and "refugees" or not, we will suffer the consequences of the actions or inaction of those we have entrusted to keep this nation secure.

The day will come when the mob hunts them like hounds after a rabid fox.

36 posted on 12/24/2015 10:04:04 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: oldasrocks
We’ll all be back in the Dark Ages soon.

We're on the threshold now.

37 posted on 12/24/2015 10:07:38 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: goodnesswins
"Just wondering how old you are...I’m 64 and until last few years whooping cough was not on my radar...and I had no Vax for it either."

I'm 67.....you young whippersnapper!

38 posted on 12/24/2015 1:17:34 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Nailbiter
"Consider the spanish flu epidemic at the end of WW1.

That one got my grand-dad, and left my mother an orphan infant (my grand-mom had died in a fire a very few years before).

39 posted on 12/24/2015 1:20:35 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Good question! Planting flowers, raised up without remembering where I was ...


40 posted on 12/24/2015 1:47:54 PM PST by riverdawg
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