In desperation, the public health department applied to have the man incarcerated. Showing no regard for public health and safety, the judge has given Mr. Rosales yet another chance, warning that this behavior could reflect poorly on his citizenship bid. Late last year, a number of government-sponsored refugees from Rwanda were found to have malaria. Southern Ontario was a hotbed of malaria in the last century. This was one of the many diseases modern science and Western sanitation had thought conquered.
Malaria is communicable.
We have the Anopheles mosquito and the three months of warm weather necessary for an outbreak to occur. Now, we have infected people in our midst who are carriers. Thanks to non-existent screening, per capita malaria cases in Canada stand at nearly ten times the US rate. In 1999, several stewardesses and aid workers involved in bringing over 5,000 Kosovar Albanians to Canada came down with tuberculosis. Of course, the government had promised to have the refugees tested beforehand.