Deportations and Deadly Diseases
July 3, 2014 | Peter J. Hotez

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Peter J. Hotez
Fellow in Disease and PovertyIn the midst of the mounting immigration crisis, politicians and even some physicians have labeled child migrants from Central America a "threat to homeland security," fearing that they will introduce infectious diseases across the southern United States. However, tropical infectious diseases have been in Texas long before the migrant influx, writes Peter Hotez, fellow in disease and poverty.
Read the full blog in the July 1, 2014, Huffington Post.