YOU reported (July 23) on the “first case of a possibly fatal disease,” saying that the trichinellosis diagnosed in a Polish man in Dublin was “previously found only in foxes”.

FEW would disagree with your editorial on puppy farms (June 23) — “cruel, inhumane and unacceptable by every civilised standard”.

RYLE DWYER, (Irish Examiner, Nov 22) informs us that the Irish who fled to America in wake of the Great Famine were regarded as the dregs of society — poor, dirty, disease-ridden and uneducated.