New School of Tropical Medicine is bad news for Perry

[RandySF]

Why is it bad news for Gov. Perry when Science Magazine reports that the head of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Peter Hotez, is leaving George Washington University and moving the 20 plus person vaccine development team to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston? Part of the problem for Perry is that Hotez is setting up the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor's College of Medicine in Houston's Texas Medical Center because this expert in tropical diseases finds Texas interesting "Because there is a lot of poverty; it has the highest rates of parasitic and neglected infections anywhere in the U.S." He continues "In 2008 I described a group of six neglected diseases that are common both in African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. In addition, dengue has emerged along the Gulf Coast. That's another rationale for being based in Houston".

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/18/986379/-New-School-of-Tropical-Medicine-is-bad-news-for-Perry?via=siderec

[Angry Dragon]

1. Years ago doctors had to travel to third world countries to

study diseases like these.


Do we need any more proof that bush and perry have turned Texas into a third world country??

[virgogal]

3. This is just more fuel for the anti-immigrant crowd and the way

Mr Hotez worded his rationale won't help.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Dingy fever in Texas - now that is exotic

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Baylor will destroy the project.

A few years ago they got a new president of the med school in Houston, Peter Traber, that ran up a $150 million dollar deficit, fired a whole lot of people, expecting their jobs to be done by I do not know who, and expected professors to teach extra classes for free.

Several professors that were department heads went to other universities where they would be treated like professionals, not like slave labor.

Baylor has been going down the drain for five or six years now. I think they should lose their accreditation if it's as bad as I have heard.