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On AlterNet: leprosy

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "leprosy"

Lou Dobbs Persists in Promoting Lies about Immigrant Leprosy Cases

Lou Dobbs Persists in Promoting Lies about Immigrant Leprosy Cases

Mark Potok, SPLC Intelligence Report. June 15, 2007.
For more than four years, CNN's Dobbs has spread one one-sided -- and in some cases outright false -- information to attack undocumented migrants.

CNN's Lou Dobbs Defends Claim That Illegal Immigrants Are Bringing Leprosy to America

CNN's Lou Dobbs Defends Claim That Illegal Immigrants Are Bringing Leprosy to America

Brian J. Levy, Media Matters for America. May 14, 2007.
Citing a debunked study in a right-wing journal, Lou Dobbs' show claimed that leprosy has increased in America as a result of "unscreened illegal immigration primarily from Southeast Asia" -- and he's not backing down.