Typhus, Covid-19 and Xenophobia at the US-Mexico Border
Breanna Bernal, Gabe Rust, Latavonia Belcher Image Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images COVID-19 is not the first case where an increased sentiment of xenophobia has impacted public health policy at the US-Mexico border. In this podcast, we will go over the Typhus outbreak of 1916 and draw similarities between COVID-19 and how these policies tend to negatively impact those most vulnerable. We will give an expansive description of the conditions immigrants were and still are subjected to and how it relates to medicalized racism. Further Readings: Andersson, H., & Bettiza, S. (2021). US migrant camp 'kids feel like they're in prison'. BBC News. broadcast, BBC. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-57576306. Markel, H. (2005). Lice, Typhus, and Riots on the Texas-Mexico Border. In When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since…