Roll Up, Roll Up, Get Yer Diphtheria Jabs.

[Diasi]

More cultural enlightenment.

https://tinyurl.com/2p824whv

[klondike]

If we let third world people in then we should expect to be letting in long ago defeated diseases too. Luckily it is something covered by childhood shots here. Unluckily some of the imports won't have had those shots. Not sure if protection is life long or just the absence of the disease in general is protecting the main population.

[Ashy]

I expect we shall find out.

[Alex]

What next  ?   

[Michael Rolls]

bubonic plague?

[Alex]

So many of the arrivals have been dispersed around the country, so no doubt there will be more diseases we'd forgotten about.

[Michael Rolls]

and will doubtless be reminded about

[GrannyMac]

bubonic plague?

Leprosy?

[Diasi]

Leprosy?

The Asians reintroduced TB some years ago.

[klondike]

Didn't out explorers wipe out somewhere or other in the past? Maybe some tribes in the Amazon. Possibly some Pacific Islands too. Our ancestors certainly killed plenty with lead poisoning in the days of Empire.

[Diasi]

Didn't out explorers wipe out somewhere or other in the past? Maybe some tribes in the Amazon. Possibly some Pacific Islands too. Our ancestors certainly killed plenty with lead poisoning in the days of Empire.

The Spanish wiped out the Aztecs by introducing diseases.

[klondike]

Ah right. I expect we will still get the blame though.

[Michael Rolls]

mais oui! Actually, but memory fails, I am pretty sure that Europeans, maybe Brits, maybe not, took over a Pacific island, introduced European diseases, by chance, not by intent, and the islanders, having no natural immunity, where wiped out. Will continue to search the old memory box - but don't wait up.

[klondike]

Our memories seem to coincide and be equally valueless 

[Michael Rolls]

Our memories seem to coincide and be equally valueless