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Re:WW1 trench fever identified in former homeless man in Canada by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:09AM (#25332812)
>> The issue is "And even if you don't care how we treat homeless people, you should care that we are breeding diseases that we see as in the past and this puts everyone at risk."

I don't think this is an issue, or rather the preferred solution for that seems to be to close borders and keep all the poor people out. Reminding the proponents of this "solution" that e.g. the people immigrating from Africa to the EU to ask for asylum may be carrying diseases that are not found in the Western world is likely to cause a hardening of the anti-immigration and anti-asylum stance, rather than any support for better hygiene in developing nations.

From a national point of view, it's simpler to keep homeless people away from rich peoples' homes than to make sure they don't get sick. So the self-interest argument is not really going to work with people who are already doing fine in their self-interest, they thank you.

Re:WW1 trench fever identified in former homeless man in Canada by DoreenMichele on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:28PM (#25336988)
I was thinking more about international travelers who deem the world to be their inexpensive playground only to come home sick with things that "should" be easily fixable but often no longer are:

Increasingly we are also seeing antibiotic-resistant bacteria from overseas reaching Australia through returning travellers.

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Global-travel-and-antibi...

Antibiotic resistance is also intricately linked to travel health and has many implications for travellers. Overuse of antibiotic medications for ailments such as traveller’s diarrhea has contributed to the spread of antibiotic resistance. In Southeast Asia, for example, ciprofloxacin and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics are no longer effective in treating traveller’s diarrhea since they are resistant to Campylobacter, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Shigella bacteria.

In Pakistan, extensively drug-resistant Typhoid Fever is growing since antibiotics such as ampicillin and ciprofloxacin no longer work. Cases have been reported in returning travellers from North America, the UK, Denmark and Australia. Travellers can be at the forefront of antimicrobial resistance – we are sentinels that can provide clues or alert researchers to developments on the ground.

https://www.iamat.org/blog/fighting-back-against-antibiotic-...