Social media claim wrong about number of immigrants and reemergence of livestock disease

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A social media post alleged that an influx of immigrants is bringing a livestock disease eradicated since 1929 back into

Because “17 million immigrants” were “let in” the U.S, “ foot and mouth disease is back. We got rid of that fifty years ago.”An Agriculture Ministry official in Indonesia prepares to use a blowgun to give vaccine to a cow during a vaccination campaign to prevent the spread of a the highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease at a farm in 2022.

A similarly named, but unrelated disease called hand, foot and mouth disease, is common among young children in the U.S. the U.S., but that’s news to the U.S. Agriculture Department.used a meme from"The Simpsons" with text misspelling"vaxxed" and"unvaxxed" that said,"The people who forced you to get vaxed to keep your job let in 17 million unvaxed and unemployed." The post’s caption read,"They're bringing different diseases in.

The claim that foot-and-mouth disease is back as a result of migrants entering the U.S is inaccurate, said Lyndsay Cole, a spokesperson for the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.Stanley cups tested positive for lead “inside of the cup where the drink is.” Hand, foot and mouth disease is common in children younger than 5 years old, although anyone can get it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s contagious and causes sores and rashes, but it’s usually not serious, the CDC said.

An Instagram post’s claim that 17 million immigrants let into the U.S. has resulted in the reemergence of foot-and-mouth disease in the country is wrong. There are no current cases of foot-and-mouth disease. The claim is False.

 

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