A Cincinnati man passed typhoid to seven other men in the city who had sex with him last summer, federal researchers said Wednesday. It is treatable with antibiotics, but is occasionally fatal for victims who do not seek treatment.
Typhoid is most often transmitted by swallowing food and water contaminated with human feces, which harbors a type of salmonella that causes the disease. But health officials found that none of the Cincinnati men shared food or drink.
The disease likely circulated by highly risky oral-anal contact among the men, said Megan Reller, an epidemiologist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC labeled typhoid a sexually transmitted disease for the first time at a conference in Atlanta this week..."
Entire article is posted at http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/04/26/typhoid.sex.ap/
A new vaccine will allow doctors to immunize children younger than 5 against typhoid fever, a disease that affects 16 million people worldwide and kills 600,000 every year...
The researchers plan to begin trials of the new vaccine in infants late this year.
If their findings are confirmed in babies, Drs. Richard Guerrant and Margaret Kosek of the University of Virginia wrote in an editorial, "this vaccine will provide another exciting advance in the fight against an increasingly resistant, highly virulent pathogen of poverty...
"This is exciting. It really is an important advance, especially in what are really diseases now of inadequate water and sanitation," Guerrant, a geographic medicine professor, said in an interview. He said, however, that the vaccine can't be considered a substitute for development and improved sanitation...
Doctors treat only about 400 cases of typhoid each year in the United States, and 70 percent of those people caught the disease during travel in developing nations, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However, typhoid is very common in India and developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In many of those countries, the germ is resistant to common antibiotics, forcing doctors to use those in a more expensive group, Szu said..."
CDC April 26, 2001
Dawn Richardson forwarded these two separate articles that were released 7 minutes apart from each other. Coincidence? Read between the lines on what is really going on here.
It appears that we will be seeing a new push by the vaccine powers to give yet another unnecessary and potentially dangerous vaccine to our children. Keep posted on this one.
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