Measles on the rise in US, foreign travel blamed

http://www.boston.com/health/2014/05/29/measles-cases-hit-record-number/GoLfQQ0iMhjwLnbBLvBY2I/story.html

It was all over the news yesterday, Measles, once thought virtually eradicated in the US is back.

I guess Measles will soon join TB as a disease on the rise in the US thanks to our out of control immigration policy.  Is “foreign travel” code for the verboten word—“immigration?”

Here is the story at the Washington Post.

Just looking around for more news on this latest outbreak, I see a medical doctor who writes a health myth website has something to say about the feds/vaccines and immigration.  Check it out here.

I’m wondering if the threat of Measles (and other contagious diseases) increasing in the US is what is really behind the push by the State Department and CDC to get the refugees vaccinated before leaving their third world country, see our report on that new project here ten days ago.

We have 220 previous posts in our ‘health issues’ category, click here for more information on health problems related to refugees and immigrants generally.

Malta gets a large EU grant to detect infectious diseases in Africans arriving there illegally

Why do we care?  Because for the last 5 years (at least) we have been taking some Somali illegal aliens who arrive in Malta on boats to the US as legitimate refugees.  So, now I suppose we should be glad infectious disease screening is going to improved.  Here is just one recent post on the Malta mess.

Africans arrive in Malta. Bound for the USA (eventually).

From the Times of Malta:

A new initiative by the Health Ministry, funded by the EU and intended to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in Malta, will kick off tomorrow at Lyster Barracks Detention Centre.

The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate within the Ministry, has managed to secure an investment of over €700,000 from the European Refugee Fund Emergency Measures Annual Programme 2012 to develop a project to enhance the screening process at Lyster Detention Centre in Ħal Far.

For ambitious readers, I bet we have over a hundred posts (at least dozens and dozens for sure) on Malta here at RRW.

Update: Be sure to see World Refugee Day celebrated on Malta, here.  They celebrated a dinghy.