Ya I was puzzled at Pertussis too Venise, so I checked the interwebz and appear to have all the diseases listed (and most of the rest save Housemaids Knee) except Pertussis ! But whats that you say ? A limerick ?
Scott Morrison makes quite a fussus
Demands quarantine please to protect us !
But his zeal for our health
Ignores those who by stealth
Fly in with the Clap and Pertussis
Interesting – Pertussis is Whooping Cough. Doesn’t 10,000 constitute an epidemic? Why is there not a major campaign by the Federal Government to encourage vaccination of infants and booster vaccination in the adult population?
I need some shingles for the roof, though and would you believe it the asylum seekers have 3 cases of them? Did they get those off a government minister’s lackey in an office at Bondi or out of a carboot at the Pigs Arms? Enquiry!
Diseases can be a two edged sword.
The irony of nearly eradicating whooping cough but being thwarted by the same lying misinformation machine that questions climate change and uses a caterer to do their financial costing of human lives. Too many vaccination cold spots due to scandalously misinformed parents not having their children immunised.
I had a mate who was an immigrant and he had worms……and they were the best bait I have ever used.
FD, I think you mean “maximum in Jan ’10”. This still doesn’t tell you how many people passed through Christmas Island detention in the period considered but it is a lower bound. Hence 2% is actually an upper bound on the refugess infection rate.
Some of the differences are telling. One could speculate but in most cases there is only 1 or a small number of infected persons, hardly statistically meaningful. The only exceptions are Hepatitis and Syphilis where the frequencies are reversed in both populations. Hepatitis B/C makes up almost 2/3 of infections diseases in the general population wheareas it is less than 1/4 amongst refugees. The most common disease amongst refugees is syphilis (50%) whereas it is 0.04% of the general population rate. Possibly because of better public awareness and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
What is clear is the rates of infection amongst refugees is broadly in line with the general population. What is also clear, sadly, is the long and deadly history of stigmatising outsider groups as being diseased and, by inference, a problem to be solved. A “solution” if you will. Pacific, Malaysian, Final, take your pick. The film “Der Ewige Jude” (“The Eternal Jew”) being one of the more infamous examples. It seems Scott Morrison needs reminding of the history of Nazi propoganda.
77 thoughts on “Stop the bacteria and the reasons for bacteria!”
Andybob
February 28, 2012 at 5:23 pmYa I was puzzled at Pertussis too Venise, so I checked the interwebz and appear to have all the diseases listed (and most of the rest save Housemaids Knee) except Pertussis ! But whats that you say ? A limerick ?
Scott Morrison makes quite a fussus
Demands quarantine please to protect us !
But his zeal for our health
Ignores those who by stealth
Fly in with the Clap and Pertussis
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February 28, 2012 at 5:24 pmInteresting – Pertussis is Whooping Cough. Doesn’t 10,000 constitute an epidemic? Why is there not a major campaign by the Federal Government to encourage vaccination of infants and booster vaccination in the adult population?
klewso
February 28, 2012 at 5:27 pmBut how many of them suffer from xenophobia?
Or were cloned from Peter Reith’s spleen?
klewso
February 28, 2012 at 5:29 pmAnd I thought Arbib “did the left”?
Sandshoe
February 28, 2012 at 5:53 pmKlewso:
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Are products of ancient foreign tinctures?
And would-bes classified unclean?
Sandshoe
February 28, 2012 at 5:53 pmThought I’d venture a couple of lines, Klewso, as tack-ons.
Sandshoe
February 28, 2012 at 6:01 pmI need some shingles for the roof, though and would you believe it the asylum seekers have 3 cases of them? Did they get those off a government minister’s lackey in an office at Bondi or out of a carboot at the Pigs Arms? Enquiry!
rhwombat
February 28, 2012 at 6:09 pmUm. Beryceann – there is. But it’s the State Depts of Health and GPs who are responsible for delivering it.
drmick
February 28, 2012 at 6:18 pmDiseases can be a two edged sword.
The irony of nearly eradicating whooping cough but being thwarted by the same lying misinformation machine that questions climate change and uses a caterer to do their financial costing of human lives. Too many vaccination cold spots due to scandalously misinformed parents not having their children immunised.
I had a mate who was an immigrant and he had worms……and they were the best bait I have ever used.
JamesG
February 28, 2012 at 6:33 pmFD, I think you mean “maximum in Jan ’10”. This still doesn’t tell you how many people passed through Christmas Island detention in the period considered but it is a lower bound. Hence 2% is actually an upper bound on the refugess infection rate.
Some of the differences are telling. One could speculate but in most cases there is only 1 or a small number of infected persons, hardly statistically meaningful. The only exceptions are Hepatitis and Syphilis where the frequencies are reversed in both populations. Hepatitis B/C makes up almost 2/3 of infections diseases in the general population wheareas it is less than 1/4 amongst refugees. The most common disease amongst refugees is syphilis (50%) whereas it is 0.04% of the general population rate. Possibly because of better public awareness and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
What is clear is the rates of infection amongst refugees is broadly in line with the general population. What is also clear, sadly, is the long and deadly history of stigmatising outsider groups as being diseased and, by inference, a problem to be solved. A “solution” if you will. Pacific, Malaysian, Final, take your pick. The film “Der Ewige Jude” (“The Eternal Jew”) being one of the more infamous examples. It seems Scott Morrison needs reminding of the history of Nazi propoganda.