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I understand concerns other parents have about vaccinating their children. It’s a choice I feel right about making for my daughter.” — Audrey Fitzsimmons journalism senior
AZ parents opting out of vaccines Health care professionals cite new misinformation over risk of shots By Eliza Molk KEVIN BROST/DAILY WILDCAT
Somalian biochemistry sophomore Hussein Magale stands in front of the University of Arizona Medical Center-University Campus on Tuesday. Magale spent time in a refugee camp in Kenya before immigrating to the United States.
Refugee finds refuge Biochem student forges new life after escaping civil war in Somalia By Amer Taleb DAILY WILDCAT
Men with both arms sawed off, mothers lying dead on the ground after giving birth and children with rib cages that appeared ready to pop out of their skin are all patients in one of Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps. Hussein Magale, who fled Somalia with his family in 1992 because of the country’s civil war, lived in the city’s camp for most of his life. The biochemistry sophomore, who speaks three languages, began translating for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian
The police and their organization helping wooden canes were his camp, when he “ I know how blessed I the cruelest, Magale was a teenager. said. “No religion, color, am to be in the states Magale said he race, nothing. They getting my education always excelled in (doctors) only see and I always do my best class and valued humans,” Magale in class. And I never education because it said. was the only way out The camp was an forget where I come of the camp. Many open prison. It was from. Never.” kids couldn’t handle small, smelled like the abuse and would trash and crammed — Hussein Magale commit suicide, he with p e o p l e. biochemistry sophomore said. Magale said the School was difficult, Kenyan government especially because of was abusive and prevented the refugees from looking for a shortage of materials. Pencils were broken so more students could use jobs or leaving the camp. “Where can you go? If you’re not them and there was only one book for Kenyan, you can’t live,” he said. “Not MAGALE, 2 like a human.”
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The number of Arizona parents opting out of vaccinating their children has more than doubled in the past decade, according to data from the Arizona Department of Health Services. There are a variety of reasons for this, such as misinformation about the risks involved in vaccination, according to Elizabeth Jacobs, an associate professor of public health at the UA. The “major adverse events” of health problems caused by vaccinations are “extremely rare,” she said. Jacobs, who is conducting a study on this issue with a colleague, is looking at different demographics in the state to see how groups of people who aren’t vaccinating are clustering. “The biggest problem is that they (unvaccinated children) are in clusters, they’re not spread out,” she said. “That’s why it’s a health problem.” Arizona law allows parents to file an exemption form to be given to their children’s school if they don’t want them vaccinated due to personal or religious beliefs, and it’s an “easy” state to do this because a physician is not required to sign or notarize the form, according to Jacobs. Unvaccinated children are also not permitted in school during disease outbreaks, such the measles or mumps, that could be prevented by vaccines. The proportion of children whose parents filed an exemption based on personal or religious beliefs increased from 1.2 percent to 3.4 percent in child care and from 1.2 percent to 3.2 percent in kinder-
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Postal changes may increase work for Res Halls By Samantha Munsey DAILY WILDCAT
With service cuts being debated for the U.S. Postal Service, the UA’s Residence Life anticipates more mail for students on Mondays. U.S. Postmaster General, Patrick Donahoe sent a warning to Congress in September stating the USPS will face bankruptcy if nothing changes. Some of the modifications suggested to help with this issue include the elimination of Saturday post. If this change goes into effect, Manzanita-Mojave Residence Hall Desk Manager Armando Osete, a junior studying political science and pre-law, said he thinks sorting mail on Monday mornings will be more of a task for him and rest of his employees. “It’s not only affecting the resident but it is affecting us too because it is going to be a way
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bigger workload,” Osete said. “If you see our mail rooms when we come back from winter break we will have at least five to six mail buckets full of letters and packages. There are 400 to 500 residents you have to sort out for.” Osete also said that he sees a large majority of the residents check their mail on a daily basis as it is the first time for a lot of them participating in the service. “When they used to live back at home they would expect their parents to get the mail,” Osete said. “But now they actually get to partake in the action and go and visit their boxes at least once a day.” Chantoll Forrest, a resident of Manzanita-Mojave and pre-nursing freshman, said waiting on postal items like textbooks and school supplies might interfere with the learning process.
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birthdays and other things like that.” The Student Union Post Office Contract Unit, located in the Student Union Memorial Center, would face less of a drawback to the Saturday post-halt as they are not open that day on a regular basis. “I can’t really see there being a big change to the way we handle the mail here on campus just because students already know we are closed that day,” said Sean Oneil, the mail clerk for the location. Some students who typically use the mail service at the studetn union are not worried about the facility being closed. “I don’t think the post office KEVIN BROST/DAILY WILDCAT being closed on Saturday is going Political science freshman Ryan Katz prepares a piece of mail before sending it out to affect me,” said Rebecca Luiten, at the Student Union Post Office on Wednesday. a biochemistry junior. “I send my “If I needed to get something on need to send and receive things mail out early enough and use a Saturday, that would be an issue,” all the time and I would like also the one here at the student union Forrest said. “I know employees like send things back home for because it is convenient.”
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