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..."

Dawn Richardson
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