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Originally Posted by Guest
Perhaps your question deserves an answer. While you apparently on the CDC website you should have seen it. When I point it out to you will you admit it makes Dr Carson either look uninformed that he did not know this fact (which I did without looking it up) or if he did know it makes him a demagogue for dragging the issue of people crossing our border into the issue.
" As a result of high vaccination coverage and better measles control in the Americas, in 2000, measles was declared eliminated (no disease transmission for at least 12 months) in the United States. Indigenous measles virus circulation was interrupted in 2002 in the rest of the Western Hemisphere...The largest percentage of importations (46%) was among people who acquired the disease in Europe. However, importations consistently occur from other countries and regions, including India and the Philippines"
Note where it clearly says the Western Hemisphere which includes of course Latin America has been clear for 12 years.
Measles (Rubeola) - Chapter 3 - 2014 Yellow Book | Travelers' Health | CDC
Read the paragraph on epidemiology. Note very clearly |
Of course I noted the link you provided. And I noted that the CDC info, unfortunately, does not significantly document material post 2011/2012 - much before the recent influx of the undocumented who have been crossing our borders. Nor have I found any resource to indicate that *only* Central Americans have been crossing those borders. Here is an article that tends to bring the issue closer to current day:
Public Schools Face Health Threat from Illegal Aliens
Looks like we will have to wait a bunch more years for a non-hysterical evaluation of the diseases that have been introduced/re-introduced in the U.S. by this recent influx of undocumenteds.