Leo Kearse
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"The Meningitis Belt" comes to Britain
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There’s an outbreak of meningitis in England right now. I wonder why we’re seeing a resurgence in diseases endemic to swathes of the third world? A real head scratcher. And that scratching is probably caused by a burrowing skin worm imported from Eritrea.
Could there be something else behind the rise of diseases we thought had been eradicated? We've also seen sudden outbreaks of tuberculosis and diphtheria. I'm just waiting for Ebola to run rampant through Peckham.
Well, over the last couple of decades Britain has had completely unfettered immigration from a swathe of Africa known as "The Meningitis Belt". If you visit this place, you have to be vaccinated against meningitis - but if you're from there and you can get to the UK on something that floats, we're powerless to stop you.
And meningitis is just the tip of the disease infested iceberg...
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