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England's National Health Service is urging parents to get their children vaccinated for the flu ahead of the holiday season to protect grandparents and other vulnerable relatives:
Flu vaccines administered through a nasal spray rather than an injection have been rolled out this autumn for two and three-year-olds, and children in reception class and years one to four in primary school. Children are super-spreaders because of the greater likelihood of them contracting flu at nursery or school, where germs are passed on at a rapid rate. But only 18% of school-age children have had the nasal spray immunisation, according to the latest figures.
Prof Keith Willett, NHS England's medical director for acute care, said: "Flu can be spread more easily by children, especially to vulnerable relatives such as older grandparents, those with heart or lung conditions and pregnant family members. Last year, millions of people missed out on their free vaccination and yet it's one simple, common sense step to help us all stay healthy this winter."
With less than a month until Christmas, the NHS is urging parents to book their children in for the free vaccination to help curb infection over the festive season, when family get-togethers can spread the infection.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror (a tabloid) claims that Russian agents are spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the UK in an effort to destabilize the country:
Russian cyber units are spreading false information about flu and measles jabs in the UK, experts warn. [Ed's Note: The current flu immunisation is applied via a nasal spray - there are no 'jabs' involved.] Vladimir Putin is believed to want to erode trust in US and European governments. The state-sponsored units are spreading the lies on social media to destabilise Britain, it is claimed. The Kremlin has previously been accused of attempting to influence Brexit and Scottish independence. Now, it is feared it is trying to create distrust over flu jabs and the MMR measles vaccine.
[...] Security services are so concerned over the threat to public health and security that Government departments have been ordered to monitor social media and flag up risky articles. Health chiefs have had emergency meetings over the spread "fake news" over vaccination campaigns. [...] We can reveal public health officials are investigating whether an outbreak of measles last week in Liverpool and Leeds was fuelled by parents not vaccinating children due to "false information read on the internet".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @07:04PM (1 child)
We've been lucky. Historically, the least integrating have been mostly non-destructive.
To use modern names: Lebanon was not so lucky. That was recently a Christian nation. Recovery is not happening. Death is happening. Afghanistan was Buddhist. Bangladesh was Hindu. Iran was Zoroastrian. Egypt was Christian. There has been a lot of death.
We ourselves did it to the North American aboriginal tribes. Once our numbers got big enough, we dished out death. Immigration did not allow for survival of the pre-Colombian cultures.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:32PM
Modern developed world countries have more going for them than weak corrupt societies of the past. I believe the violence in the Islam world is in large part due to radicals losing badly on today's culture front. Women, for example, will choose heavily a Western-style culture, given a choice between traditional Islamic role as a slave with no legal say outside her home and a culture where she not only has the full rights of a man, but also everyone has much greater rights and power.
Further, recent EU immigration has been curbed from the peak in 2015 by a huge amount [reuters.com].
It's not the same situation any more.
And every one of those countries you mentioned above improved in early centuries with the advent of Islam (particularly, the countries subject to Hinduism and its caste system). That includes the countries dominated by Buddhism (which had developed notable corruption problems since around 0 AD, among other things disappearing from most of India by around 600 AD). Islam had a lot going for it in the early days. Today is a long ways off from back then.
Finally, there are many other immigration populations to choose from than just Islamic ones. The US is more balanced, for example, with immigrants from the rest of the Americans, non-Muslim Africa, and Eastern Europe.
Sure, high levels of immigration from places without strong democratic or capitalist traditions can destabilize a Western-style society. But for the most part, that's not actually a problem in the developed world. Everyone has implemented some sort of gate system for immigration, which has been effective enough. We'll see in the future what happens. But so far, Islamic immigrants have not been very different from any other immigrant, particularly in the US.