being a member of other lists I thought you may find this interesting
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any one in Utah with Rife or Silver....
PERTUSSIS - USA (UTAH)
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:25:00 -0400
Source: Deseret News
Via: George A. Robertson <[email protected]>
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50 cases confirmed; hundreds of people showing symptoms
Last updated 09/11/1998, 11:43 a.m. MT
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An outbreak of whooping cough has hit Utah, health department officials
said Friday. Fifty cases have been confirmed and hundreds more people
are
showing symptoms of the infectious respiratory disease pertussis,
commonly
known as whooping cough.
Scott Williams, deputy director of the Utah Department of Health, said
50
Utah people have been diagnosed with whooping cough since January. In
the
last few months, seven new cases have been reported in four different
parts
of the state, leading health officials to call attention to the matter.
"When you get a few people exposed, those people can expose other
people.
It's kind of this geometric expansion," Williams said. "Pretty soon you
have enough exposure that the second wave of cases starts to occur."
Ages of those diagnosed range from a newborn to age 55 and they've
occurred
in Utah, Salt Lake, Summit and Washington counties in the past month. In
Salt Lake County alone, 29 cases of whooping cough have been confirmed
and
277 other people have been exposed, said Kathryn Vedder, executive
director
of the Salt Lake City-County Health Department. "We're very concerned,"
Vedder said Friday. "Adults are all susceptible to pertussis and are
actually going to be spreading the disease to the children."
Children under 2 who are not immunized are most vulnerable to the
disease,
which can cause pneumonia, brain damage and death. In the past six
weeks,
two infants have been hospitalized at Primary Children's Medical Center
with whooping cough, Williams said. Utah ties with Idaho for last place
among states for pre-school immunizations among 2-year-olds. Whooping
cough
in children can be prevented by a series of shots given at 2, 4, 6 and
15
months and again when the child enters school. Because the vaccinations
wear off after five to 10 years, adults and adolescents immunized as
infants can catch whooping cough and pass it along to others. Adult
symptoms are usually less severe. The contagious stage of the disease is
shortened by treatment with antibiotics, Williams said.
Health officials are urging Utahns with a persistent cough to see a
physician immediately. Other symptoms include runny nose, sneezing and a
low-grade fever. There may also be vomiting and the symptoms last four
to
six weeks. "We really want to identify those people, so we can get them
on
antibiotics and keep them from spreading it around," Williams said.
Whooping cough has been a problem throughout the Intermountain West,
Vedder
said, though health officials don't know why. Idaho has been especially
hard hit. Vedder said the number of recent cases led her, Williams and
other health department directors to meet this week and decide to call
the
situation an outbreak and start informing the public. "Anybody with a
persistent cough or anybody whose children have persistent coughs and
are
not immunized needs to immediately call their physician," Vedder said.
Cases of pertussis in 1998 include: Salt Lake County, 29; Utah County,
12;
Summit, Davis, Tooele and the Southwest Utah Public Health Department
(Beaver, Iron, Garfield, Washington and Kane counties), 2 each;
Weber/Morgan area, 1.
[Written by: Cala Byram]
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