Badillo:
I commend to your attention faustmanlab.org and pubmed.org faustman dl and pubmed.org ristori + BCG.
While Herman Badillo's parents died in a 1934 tuberculosis epidemic,there is no reason that BCG should not be available to Bronxites et al. For several years my brother, girlfriend and I have travelled to Boston to donate blood at Faustman's lab. BCG is safe, cheap and inexpensive and has the (side effect) of protecting against multi-drug resistant TB. I think that you will find Faustman's work worthy of your support. BCG may provide Puerto Rico with the ability to promote health tourism and economic benefits.
I send my condolences.
Faustman DL, Davis M.
Front Immunol. 2013 Dec 23;4:478. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00478.
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FILE- In this March 27, 2001 file
photo, City University of New York chairman Herman Badillo holds a news
conference in New York. Badillo, the first person born in Puerto Rico to
become a U.S. congressman has died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 in New York.
He was 85.
NEW YORK - -- Herman Badillo, a Bronx politician who became the
first person born in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman, died
Wednesday morning. He was 85.
The office of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
confirmed the death. Badillo died of complications of congestive heart
disease at a hospital in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, according to
George Arzt, a political consultant and longtime friend."He was a true pioneer of the city. He was the first major Latino to be elected," Arzt said.
In Congress, Badillo concentrated on the problems of inner cities and urged federal help for poor members of minority groups, according to his congressional biography. He also championed the rights of Puerto Ricans, noting in 1971 that they were subject to the draft but couldn't get federal benefits under the food stamp and school milk programs or parts of Social Security.
"I represent the original immigrant," Badillo said. "Everybody says that their parents and grandparents came here and couldn't speak English and they were poor. And in my case it wasn't my parents and grandparents. It was me."
FILE- In this March 27, 2001 file photo, City
University of New York chairman Herman Badillo holds a news conference
in New York. Badillo, the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a
U.S. congressman has died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 in New York. He was
85. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File) Photo Credit: AP
Badillo was born on Aug. 21, 1929, in Caguas, Puerto Rico. His parents died in a 1934 tuberculosis epidemic and he first came to New York with an aunt in 1941. He attended public schools, City College of New York and earned a law degree at Brooklyn Law School.
He started work as a city official in 1962 and his first elected position was Bronx borough president from 1965 to 1969.
He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1968 and made repeated unsuccessful runs to become New York City mayor.
FILE- In this March 27, 2001 file photo, City
University of New York chairman Herman Badillo holds a news conference
in New York. Badillo, the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a
U.S. congressman has died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 in New York. He was
85. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File) Photo Credit: AP
In 2001, he waged a bitter primary election campaign against Michael Bloomberg for the Republican mayoral nomination. Like Bloomberg, Badillo was by then a former Democrat, having run unsuccessfully for city comptroller on the Republican-Liberal Fusion line in 1993.
Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former police commissioner Ray Kelly will speak at his private funeral on Sunday, Arzt said.
Badillo lived in Manhattan and is survived by his wife, Gail, and his son by a previous marriage, David.
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