LONDON, Sept. 28, Reuter: A senior politician of the ruling Conservative Party today ‘warned the government of “horrendous prospects” for the nation’s health unless Britain screens foreign visitors, especially Africans, for Aids.
Former Health Minister Sit Gerard Vaughan said, “The government must take the simple and ‘Obvious steps to protect its people and that means screening everybody coming here, for a start, from Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda. We are crazy not to do so”.
Vaughan, who is the chairman of the trustees of the United Kingdom Aids foundation, wrote to Health Secretary Norman Fowler, saying, “If there was an outbreak of Cholera and Typhoid there would be no hesitation. Why in heaven’s name should there be any doubt about a disease which is far ‘more dangerous and so far incurable with no immediate signs of 8 cure on the horizon?
“Without action the prospects: are horrendous and we have not faced up to the problem. It is not confined to homosexuals and drug addicts, Its spreading out into the general population and we must have much more explanation and education coupled with steps to stop its further spread.”
Article extracted from this publication >> October 3, 1986
