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Measles on campus is no coincidence, says CDC Epidemiologist John Frank. Most children under college age have been immunized against the disease, and most adults have a natural immunity because they were exposed in their childhood, when measles epidemics were common. But people born between 1957 and 1967, which includes today's college students, are uniquely vulnerable. That was the decade when the measles vaccine was introduced and the incidence of the disease was dropping sharply. Thus during this period most children were not exposed to measles and did not acquire natural immunity. Some were never vaccinated, and those...
Some 56 students at B.U. and others at MIT and Boston College have broken out with measles, prompting the Federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to ask Harvard to adopt a systematic immunization program, officials said yesterday...
...leading expert on leprosy, who in 1960 first succeeded in growing in lab animals the microbe that causes leprosy, a breakthrough that enabled scientists to test potential treatments and preventive measures much more quickly; of an apparent heart attack; in Atlanta. In 1976, Shepard was also one of two CDC researchers who isolated the elusive bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease...
...presence of chlamydial infections until recently could be detected only by a complicated laboratory test that took up to seven days to complete and was offered at few medical centers in the U.S. As a result, chlamydia was rarely diagnosed. Says Dr. Ward Cates Jr., head of the CDC's division of sexually transmitted diseases: "Most physicians went to medical school when it was not recognized, and would have trouble spelling it, much less treating...
Chlamydia is so widespread that some doctors have begun administering the appropriate antibiotics to suspect patients even before the results of diagnostic tests are in. For example, because 40% of women and 20% of men with gonorrhea also have chlamydia, the CDC's Cates recommends that anyone with a confirmed case of gonorrhea be treated for chlamydia as well. Schachter suggests the same policy for women with PID. "You can't just sit around and wait for a lab diagnosis," he says. "The patient could wind up sterile...