Vdare:
The headline is How a Caribbean island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases [by Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News, July 23 2016], but of course it’s not the island, it’s the immigrants—from the Dominican Republic.
The Centers for Disease Control apparently does not break out cases by country of origin (why not?) but, Kaiser reports, it “said in June that 48 percent of the travel-associated cases for all of 2015 and through May of this year originated in the Caribbean, 26 percent in Central America and 23 percent in South America.” (Link in original).
However, New York State, New York City, Florida and California, which account for more than half the cases, report that “more people who visited the Dominican Republic in 2016 returned with Zika than did U.S. residents who traveled to Puerto Rico, Colombia, Jamaica, El Salvador, Haiti, Guyana and Venezuela combined.”
First it was the 2014 Eola crisis, which scared me half to death because my court had was serving litigants from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and all the other Eola hotspots on a daily basis.
Did I mention that a LOT of the Hispanic immigrants in my court are from the D.R.?
Shit. My co-workers and I should get combat pay for what we do.
I love it when a plan comes together!
(I got money in the pharmaceuticals that’re making the anti-virus! Just like I did with the bird-flu!)