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Viruses Without Frontiers

17 October 2007

This is National Health Week in Mexico.  The goal is to immunize ALL children in the country — and it is a realistic goal.  In the State of Chihuahua,  1,325 immunization stations have been set up.

Ronald Dumont of the El Paso Health Department, recognizing that “the Mexican immunization program is much better than anything in the United States,” has asked Chihuahua health authorities to also immunize “illegal” children in his county.

He told El Diario de El Paso that “25% of U.S. children do not have health coverage, and a program like [Chihuahua’s] is part of the solution to the problem.”

If an “illegal’s” kid gets sick, do you think your kid is gonna have some kind of immunity based on his passport?  Or, it won’t affect you if your neighbor can’t afford insurance?  Geeze, what’s wrong with US?  W fight over whether a kid’s parents earn “too much” to deserve free medical care… somehow thinking if a kid gets sick, it’s his parent’s fault for not being poor… or rich.

What’s wrong with just jabbing the kids… and the adults?

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