Researchers find a strain of tuberculosis that is particularly common in Mexican immigrants

The incidence of a strain of tuberculosis (TB) called Mycobacterium bovis, or M. bovis, associated more often with cattle than humans, is increasing in San Diego and is concentrated mostly in Hispanics of Mexican origin, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in collaboration with San Diego County public health officials. Their analysis shows that changing patterns of TB in the United States are increasingly being driven by conditions outside of the country, especially in binational communities. In their review of 3,291 culture-positive cases of TB covering 1994 to 2005, M. bovis accounted for 45% of TB cases in children under the age of 15, with almost all M. bovis cases from 2001 to 2005 found in persons of Hispanic ethnicity. The researchers found that more than 90% of M. bovis cases in San Diego occurred in Hispanics, most born in Mexico.

Arizona is 30% Hispanic

The Census Bureau recently released population estimates of the states' Hispanic populations through 2007. In Arizona, Hispanics make up 30% of the population, double the national average of about 15%. With an estimated 1.8 million Hispanics, Arizona has the fourth-highest percentage of Hispanic people in the nation. West Virginia, Maine, Vermont, North Dakota and Mississippi have the lowest percentage of Hispanics.

Race, education and alchemy

Steve Sailer writes about how our politically correct educational system is failing so many students.

Muslim crime in Europe

Randall Parker blogs about the problem of Islamic crime in Europe and how to deal with it.

Grand jury to investigate attack on black man by Jews in Crown Heights

The Brooklyn district attorney will seat an investigative grand jury to probe the beating of an unarmed black man by two Jewish men in Crown Heights, the Daily News has learned. The victim - a 20-year-old college student and the son of a cop - has met with prosecutor Charles Hynes about the April14 attack in a neighborhood with a long history of racial tension. "He's an excellent young man, and I met with him personally to assure him that I would do everything in my power to bring to justice those who humiliated him," Hynes said Wednesday. Daily News columnist Errol Louis revealed details of the troubling attack in Wednesday's editions, citing fears of unrest if arrests are not made soon. Police sources say their investigation has been slowed by the refusal of neighborhood Hasidic residents to cooperate with authorities. "Right now, the Hasidic community is taking a page from the rappers' 'don't snitch' campaign," said a police source. The investigative grand jury can subpoena witnesses and compel them to testify. Andrew Charles, a sophomore at Kingsbridge Community College, was walking along Albany Ave. when a white attacker on a bicycle sprayed him with Mace, police sources said. A GMC Envoy then pulled up, with a second man emerging from the vehicle to smash Charles in the back and arm with a nightstick, police said. An adviser to the Charles family said both the attackers were wearing yarmulkes.

The new mayor of Rome has promised to purge the Italian capital of 20,000 illegal immigrants and to raze 85 Gypsy camps

Gianni Alemanno, 50, a firebrand neo-fascist and the first Right-wing mayor of the city since the Second World War, vowed to make Rome secure as he was sworn into office after his election at the weekend. The election of Mr Alemanno confirmed a strong shift to the Right by Italians, who have been sickened by a spate of violent crimes committed by immigrants. Earlier this month, the center-Right leader Silvio Berlusconi was re-elected as prime minister and will form a government in partnership with Umberto Bossi, the leader of the anti-immigration Northern League.

A Salvadoran refugee claimant who admitted to killing at least four rival gangsters walks free in Canada

A Salvadoran refugee claimant who admitted to killing at least four rival gangsters in gunfights and grenade attacks is not dangerous enough to be locked up pending his deportation, an Immigration and Refugee Board member has ruled. In fact, adjudicator Daphne Shaw Dyck said she did not believe Jose Franciso Cardoza Quinteros killed several times for the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, despite his sensational admissions to the Canada Border Services Agency last September. Shaw Dyck ordered Cardoza Quinteros released for the second time in seven months on a $1,000 bond with the condition that he must report once a month and not drink alcohol while residing with relatives in Surrey.

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Obama's race speech

Charles Krauthammer writes about Barack Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright.

Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims are helping to fuel widespread rigging of postal votes and other electoral malpractices in Britain

The use of Biraderis - extended clan or tribal systems - by first generation Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims as well as their political masters is helping fuel widespread rigging of postal votes and other electoral malpractices in Britain, a report said. Although the majority of those booked for electoral malpractices in Britain have been white males, the report by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, a national charity promoting democratic reform and constitutional change, says half of those convicted are Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

Height and genes

80% of variation in height is due to variation in genetics.

Hispanics make up the overwhelming majority of federal offenders facing powder cocaine charges

By 2000, half of all cocaine traffickers facing federal charges were Hispanic, U.S. Sentencing Commission data show. Additionally, Hispanics made up 61% of traffickers smuggling in more than 5 kilograms (about 11 pounds). More than 80% of crack cocaine offenders are black, according to data between 1992 and 2006. Fewer than 10% of crack offenders are white or Hispanic

The decline of the white race

In 1950, whites were 28% of the world's population and Africans 9%, a ratio of three-to-one. In 2060, the ratio will remain the same, but the colors will be reversed. People of African ancestry will be 25% of the world's population while people of European descent will have fallen to 9.8%.

Florida is not as popular as it used to be among non-Hispanic whites

Florida is not as popular as it used to be among whites who are not Hispanic, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report. As recently as 2005 the state held the No. 1 spot for growth among non-Hispanic whites, but the report shows a major shift to the 29th spot. Latest figures show Florida had the third-highest increase in Hispanics between 2006 and 2007. The Hispanic population grew by about 131,000, with only Texas and California drawing higher numbers. Florida's black population increased as well, growing 43,000. It is third behind Texas. Georgia ranked highest.

Immigration could lead to extremism, civil unrest and divisions over ethnicity and race

Swelling populations and a global tide of immigration will present new security challenges for the United States by straining resources and stoking extremism and civil unrest in distant corners of the globe, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said in a speech. The population surge could undermine the stability of some of the world's most fragile states, especially in Africa, while in the West, governments will be forced to grapple with ever larger immigrant communities and deepening divisions over ethnicity and race.

Immigrants and tuberculosis in Britain

Drug resistant tuberculosis is posing a growing threat in Britain, probably fuelled by immigration, say experts. Many patients with the disease came from sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

Indian baby-tossing stupidity

Muslims and Hindus are linked by a moronic 500-year old ritual that would be considered child abuse in most countries.

Hispanics are Wisconsin’s fastest-growing racial and ethnic group

The U.S. Census Bureau said 11,000 more Latinos moved to the state last year, for a total of 272,000. Almost five of every 100 Wisconsinites are now Hispanic. That’s the 32nd highest ratio in the country, and the state now ranks 24th in its total number of Latinos. Hispanics grew 41% since the last Census.

Ethnic violence in Russia

Racially motivated attacks have risen sharply as ultranationalists wage a violent campaign to drive out immigrants.

Do fertile women have sexier voices?

A woman's voice becomes more alluring when she is at her most fertile, according to new research.

Immigration and the Washington elite

Steve Sailer blogs about why wealthy people are so pro-immigration.