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CMAJ
CMAJ - April 4, 2000JAMC - le 4 avril 2000

Migrants from China

CMAJ 2000;162:971-2

See response from: P. Sullivan
I was upset to read the article "BC's Chinese migrants a healthy lot, MDs find" [full article].1 The article stated that 34% of the passengers on the fourth boat had chronic hepatitis B, which means that these passengers are infective. If over one-third of them have a disease that, if transmitted, is life threatening, how can we call them a healthy lot? I find this outrageous. Even the outcome of the disease to the migrant and the cost to our medical system leave me wondering why our government allows this to continue.

Ann-Marie Robertson
Family physician
Vancouver, BC

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Reference

  1. Kent H. BC's Chinese migrants a healthy lot, MDs find. CMAJ 2000;162(2):256.

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