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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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1 posted on 12/23/2015 10:01:23 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Its the huge migrant numbers. Combined with absolutely,sh1tty socialist healthcare that does not care at all.

They try to blame it on non vaccine takers. Such propaganda bullsh1t.


2 posted on 12/23/2015 10:05:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s right here in the USA too.


3 posted on 12/23/2015 10:08:57 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Do you think it is only Europe? we have our own share of third World vagrants flooding over our Southern Border bringing all manner of grotesque diseases with them.


4 posted on 12/23/2015 10:12:15 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“They try to blame it on non vaccine takers. Such propaganda bullsh1t.”

Thank you.


5 posted on 12/23/2015 10:19:19 PM PST by dasboot
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To: BenLurkin

How do you get scurvy? If you just eat a normal diet it will be almost impossible to get scurvy. There are also 100s of food items that add Vitamin C either as a gimmick or as a preservative.


6 posted on 12/23/2015 10:19:28 PM PST by LukeL
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To: LukeL

Ignorance.

England is allowing itself to be flooded with ignorant immigrants.


7 posted on 12/23/2015 10:20:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Also most of these disease do not have vaccines for them, or they are not recommended as part of a routine vaccination schedule. The real reason is unchecked immigration. We use to house sick immigrants in isolation until they were disease free, or if they had TB we would send them back.


8 posted on 12/23/2015 10:22:13 PM PST by LukeL
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To: BenLurkin

Turn your back on God and you will live in Hell on Earth and then in the hereafter.


9 posted on 12/23/2015 10:22:26 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: BenLurkin

Just duh.


10 posted on 12/23/2015 10:22:54 PM PST by stanne
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YIKES !

Scurvy in this day and age?

Combine the disgusting and stupid "migrants, with the lunatics who are anti-vaxxers and this is what ya get. :-(

11 posted on 12/23/2015 10:24:25 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dasboot

They do the same thing here and way too many here on “our side” fall for the same crapola.


12 posted on 12/23/2015 10:25:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin
...affecting the most vulnerable.

Oh, Boo-Hoo. Where is my violin?

England brought this all upon themselves

13 posted on 12/23/2015 10:25:52 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: BenLurkin

May God bless our Mother, despite differences nearing antiquity. The Kingdom has been among our best allies since the early 19th Century. We should spare nothing in defense of her.

Except Our Mother needs to get a clue about immigration.
14 posted on 12/23/2015 10:26:19 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Secret Agent Man
No, it really IS both and then you throw in the HORRID NHS and you have one gigantic mess on your hands.

If the filthy, disgusting "migrants" come in sans vaccinations, the English population, IF they were all vaccinated, wouldn't catch and spread the diseases.

OTOH, scurvy and cholera have to do with lack of vitamin C for the former and disgusting bathroom habits for the later.

15 posted on 12/23/2015 10:29:45 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LukeL

Exactly !


16 posted on 12/23/2015 10:30:47 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LukeL

Drug addicts


17 posted on 12/23/2015 10:33:11 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: nopardons

Non vaccinators is used to describe endemic british who are just fine, not the immigrants coming with diseases nobody there has much experience or immunity builup against. Two difeferent groups. Nonvaccine british are not the cause.


18 posted on 12/23/2015 10:44:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

They are for Whopping cough spreading like wildfire.


19 posted on 12/23/2015 10:58:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LukeL
How do you get scurvy? If you just eat a normal diet it will be almost impossible to get scurvy. There are also 100s of food items that add Vitamin C either as a gimmick or as a preservative.

Alcoholics get scurvy. Especially homeless alcoholics. I suspect a lot of drug addicts are also vulnerable.

Most prefer to live on the street since shelters have rules agains drugs and alcohol.

20 posted on 12/23/2015 11:26:05 PM PST by CurlyDave
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