Get Your Typhoid Vaccination Before Vacation
Going abroad on your next trip is no longer just a threat to your wallet, as a new study indicates that it could also be a threat to your health. Out of the approximate 300 cases of typhoid fever that are reported in the United States every year, most cases are believed to come from an international excursion. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh seem to be the leading troublemakers when it comes to getting ill. Just to make you worried even more, over the last couple of decades the strains resistant to antimicrobial drugs have made treatment a little trickier.
All these numbers are coming out of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC statistics show that you probably won’t die if you get typhoid, but you will definitely spend some time in the hospital. Almost 80 percent of the patients that were studied did travel outside the country within 30 days of becoming sick. Officials looked at about 1,900 patients between 1999 and 2006.
If you’re looking for some dry reading material, you can check out all of the CDC findings and recommendations in the current edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. As a reminder, there is a typhoid vaccine—so maybe put that on your leaving-the-country checklist. Only 5 percent of those who got sick in the study had received the vaccine.
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