A Facebook post by Deputy Prime
Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini Wednesday appeared
to blame the latest outbreak of tuberculosis on what he called
"uncontrolled migration".
"A sick immigrant on the run, perhaps unaware of the
seriousness of his condition. How many cases (are there) like
this? Unfortunately tuberculosis has begun to spread again.
Italians are paying the social and healthcare costs of years of
DISASTERS and an unregulated, uncontrolled invasion."
The post came after alarm raised by Roberto Ciambetti, head
of the Veneto regional council, on a case at a refugee reception
center in Sandrigo.
Salvini added that "they said that we were bad people,
alarmist, dangerous...I have done everything I could and will
continue to do so to change the direction" of migration
policies.
Ciambetti said that he was concerned about the "increase in
the cases of tuberculosis and the spread of this very serious
illness among migrants and those not from the European Union",
with 40 cases this year compared with 16 in 2015, and especially
after "the migrant with the illness fled, thereby possibly
becoming a vehicle for the illness" to infect others.
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