Dickensian diseases on the rise

[Mister M]

Diseases long associated with the Victorian era are back with a vengeance. Whooping cough, Scarlett fever, and gout have risen by 52% since 2010. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/02/dickensian-diseases-gout-whooping-cough-and-scarlet-fever-on-rise

 

A previous study, from 3 years ago, showed gout and malnutrition is on the rise

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11957589/Gout-and-malnutrition-levels-soaring-as-Victorian-disease-return.html

 

All we now is the return of scurvy, typhoid and dysentery, then Jacob Rees Mogg will feel right at home.

Maggi Thatcher once lovingly spoke of a return to 'Victorian values', pity we have been bequeathed its diseases

 

Edited February 2, 2019 by Mister M

[woodview]

Click bait.

Whooping cough is covered by infant routine vaccinations. No excuse for not getting them.

Gout caused by excessive consumption of meat, beer and being overweight.

 

[Robin-H]

8 minutes ago, woodview said:

Click bait.

Whooping cough is covered by infant routine vaccinations. No excuse for not getting them.

Gout caused by excessive consumption of meat, beer and being overweight.

 

This raises an important point. There has been a large rise in the 'antivax' movement. Fake science costs lives. 

[melthebell]

1 hour ago, Robin-H said:

This raises an important point. There has been a large rise in the 'antivax' movement. Fake science costs lives. 

indeed, fake news costs lives full stop.

[ez8004]

2 hours ago, woodview said:

Click bait.

Whooping cough is covered by infant routine vaccinations. No excuse for not getting them.

Gout caused by excessive consumption of meat, beer and being overweight.

 

I was going to say. How the hell can whooping cough be on the rise? Unless the numbers of crackpot anti vaxxers are going up. 

[ANGELFIRE1]

It's news to me that these horrible Diseases are on the rise. I understood we had the beating of them.

 

Angel1.

[melthebell]

1 hour ago, ez8004 said:

Unless the numbers of crackpot anti vaxxers are going up. 

indeed it is

[Top Cats Hat]

This is another thing Blair needs to take some responsibility for! 

[Phanerothyme]

Wakefield should have been imprisoned.

[medusa]

5 hours ago, woodview said:

Click bait.

Whooping cough is covered by infant routine vaccinations. No excuse for not getting them.

Gout caused by excessive consumption of meat, beer and being overweight.

 

Actually, the biggest risk factor for gout is genetic risk.  It doesn't help by overeating, but that in itself doesn't make someone concentrate uric acid in their blood, just like both of the people I know who have kidney stones are young, slim and vegetarian, yet kidney stones are also linked to overeating and drinking.

 

I agree entirely though- if you've ever actually seen a baby with whooping cough, or a child with brain damage from measles, you have no doubt that vaccinating is the way to prevent the horrors from them.