Scientific Rhetorical Analysis 

Samia Sylvia

ENGL 21000 

Professor Slentz

02/26/2020

Abstract 

The disease still represents a major cause of morbidity and mortality of foreign-born individuals. Raising migration also raises and renewed concerns about the health risks. After arrival, they gather together and crowded, and sometimes the incomplete vaccine causes human immunodeficiency virus, TB, and some more. After resettlement, they go back to their country and this results in a high incidence of malaria and some more infections. Therefore, migrants need crucial care to improve the health condition and prevent the spread of contagious disease.  

Keywords: migration, travel, rising infectious diseases. 

In the scientific report “Migration and infectious diseases” by F. Castelli and G. Sulis,  discusses the health implication, concerns, and management issues that are created by foreigners. And thus making the potential associate risk for the settlers. Infectious diseases TB, HIV, malaria, measles are an important aspect that causes mortality for foreign-born individuals. Especially towards Europe, the immigration percentage has been rising since last year. This migrating renewed the concern and risk for the native population. 

The author is Prof. F. Castelli is currently acting as Principal Investigator in clinical trials. He is responsible for research funding by Pfizer, ViiV, Astellas. He is pro scientific contributions. He has done more than 5 research works about human diseases and treatments. Abbott. Dr. G. Sulis and Prof. F. Castelli they both responsible for the choice and presentation of views included in this article and for opinions expressed internally in this report. This report was published in May 2017 in the Science Direct session. 

When someone grows up in one environment, this person’s immune system build-up to persist the pathogens for a specific environment. When the person migrates to another environment, based on the living condition, and the country of origin, this person’s survival chance becomes an epidemiological pattern. Because this person’s immune system is not assimilated with the different environment’s pathogens. In this scientific report, the author focused on the 3rd person point of view to make the reader focused and feel all the migration’s internal feelings about infections and diseases they have been going through. Throughout the report, the authors used the 3rd person point of view to make the reader feel connected with their personal life. For example “in Europe varies widely among different population groups and compared with the native populations, with higher rates of deaths due to infectious diseases” (Castelli, 2017, p. 3). This emphasizes that from a 3rd person point of view, that when people migrate to a different country, because of their poor living conditions the diseases spread rapidly. If one person is affected by the disease this influences the healthy and uninfected people rapidly. Which causes high rates of death and an ineffective immune system. It is more powerful possibly this situation can be related to the audience or the readers and an accessible way to put the readers into their shoes. 

The purpose of this scientific report is to inform the migration about the cause of their epidemiological, and the reason for these varieties of disorders. The infection is not only about the poor living condition, but it’s also about the travel on overcrowded boats, and also the difficulties of gaining care when they arrive in different countries. Most of the immigrants don’t receive the health care provided by the country, they are kind of negligible. As a result, incomplete vaccines.  Moreover, “Poor hygiene and food insecurity that often characterizes refugee camps also favor the spread of lice” (2017, p. 4). Because of poor hygiene and unsensitized food, they rapidly risk themselves and diseases such as HIV, TB, respiratory infection, measles, black death spreading quickly. Therefore, the text informs the refugees and immigrants about the reason for their health problems. And in some way, it was persuading as well. The information that was provided about the immigration’s poor health condition, it also persuades the audience to secure immigrant’s health and living standard. 

The audience for this scientific report is definitely migrants and refugees. This report revealed the main points of epidemiology. This report illustrated all the immigrants especially from France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom’s foreign-born diagnosed a higher percentage of HIV, TB than the native population. One more way to point that this scientific report is meant to be for migrants is, once migrants settled in the host country they always travel back to their country to visit friends and relatives “this results in a high incidence of illnesses, among malaria…. especially in the pediatric population” (2017, p. 9). Visiting friends and relatives involve malaria cases. Especially for the young population. That means the author brings all the aspects of a migrant’s life. Which points out who the author is talking to. 

In conclusion, the report is made to inform and mainly persuade the audience about how infectious diseases cause morbidity and mortality among foreign-born. Because of poor hygiene, food contamination the diseases spread rapidly. Most of the migrants don’t receive health care therefore, they don’t receive or complete the vaccine package which is to prevent diseases. However, this report was able to persuade and inform the audience about the migrant’s potential associated health risk. Therefore, migrants need excessive care to improve the health condition and prevent the spread of contagious disease.  

Castelli, F., & Sulis, G. (2017, March 20). Migration and infectious diseases. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X17301787?via=ihub