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Chatham international student diagnosed with typhoid fever (Pittsburgh PA)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^
| September 20, 2011
| Debra Erdley
Posted on 09/20/2011 9:55:19 AM PDT by PghBaldy
..."The hospital confirmed it yesterday. She's being treated. She's improving and responding to medicine. And tests taken on all of her friends came back negative," said Chatham spokesman Paul Kovach. Kovach declined to release further information about the student, citing confidentially regulations...
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: chatham; typhoid
It is a very short article.
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posted on
09/20/2011 9:55:24 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
To: PghBaldy
Does her first name happen to be Mary?
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posted on
09/20/2011 9:58:13 AM PDT
by
IMR 4350
To: PghBaldy
Had she recently been eating at a Mexican restaurant?
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The incidence of typhoid fever in the United States has markedly decreased since the early 1900s. Today, approximately 400 cases are reported annually in the United States, mostly in people who recently have traveled to endemic areas. This is in comparison to the 1920s, when over 35,000 cases were reported in the U.S. This improvement is the result of improved environmental sanitation. Mexico and South America are the most common areas for U.S. citizens to contract typhoid fever."
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posted on
09/20/2011 10:00:00 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: PghBaldy
Why is this being posted?
I had a runny nose yesterday should I have posted a thread to discuss it?
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posted on
09/20/2011 10:00:50 AM PDT
by
arrogantsob
(Why do They hate her so much?)
To: arrogantsob
Maybe posted to show that Perry’s making it easier to obtain the state typhoid vaccination opt-out could have a downside.
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posted on
09/20/2011 10:06:05 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: arrogantsob
Beats me. I just thought it might interest people.
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posted on
09/20/2011 10:08:34 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
To: PghBaldy
Ahhhm, the Turd World: The gift that keeps on giving!
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posted on
09/20/2011 10:13:31 AM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(The 2012 election is coming. Seems we have MORE TRASH TO REMOVE!)
To: PghBaldy
That’s an impressive diagnosing job by the doc. It wouldn’t be my first thought if I saw someone with a fever.
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posted on
09/20/2011 10:52:19 AM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
To: IMR 4350
No, Mary would be her last name; her first name is Typhoid.
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posted on
09/20/2011 11:27:40 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Another Maryland girl for Palin in 2012)
To: dangerdoc
That’s an impressive diagnosing job by the doc. It wouldn’t be my first thought if I saw someone with a fever.
I have an Indian friend who had a relative come over to visit him. She started showing malaria symptoms not long after getting off the plane. He took her to the hospital and had to argue with them to convince them that was her problem. Doctors just don't see it here.
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