Dear PROVE Members,
I am forwarding some sections from two separate articles that
ran today so you can read between the lines on what is really going on
here. The first article may seem like
it doesn’t have to do with anything that we normally discuss on this list, but
make sure you read the second article and it all becomes perfectly clear...The
articles were just released 7 minutes apart from each other. Coincidence? All I can say is here we go again - remember the initial risk
groups targeted for Hepatitis B vaccine and look what we got “stuck” with! Dawn
Sexual transmission of typhoid documented in U.S.
April 26, 2001
Web posted at: 11:04 AM EDT (1504 GMT)
“ ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say they have documented the
first sexually transmitted outbreak of typhoid fever in the United States. The rare
disease usually is spread through tainted food and water.
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 U.S. 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 posted
at
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New typhoid vaccine for young children
April 26, 2001
Web posted at: 11:15 AM EDT (1515 GMT)
“(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 U.S. 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...”
(entire article posted at http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/parenting/04/26/typhoid.children.ap/)
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