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Federal government report illustrates current diphtheria risks.
2004 FEB 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to the January 9 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a recent case of fatal diphtheria was diagnosed in a U.S. citizen after he returned from foreign travel, which illustrates the importance of maintaining protection against the disease through routine tetanus-diphtheria (Td) booster immunization.
The United States has done an excellent job of reducing the prevalence of diphtheria in this country but the CDC cautions that many people in the U.S. are still at risk for this communicable and often deadly disease.
On October 27, 2003, the Pennsylvania Department of Health issued an advisory to public health officers about a case of respiratory diphtheria in a 63-year-old Pennsylvania male. This man and several others traveled to Haiti, where diphtheria is still a common disease, to work in a rural village from October 3-10. Upon returning to Pennsylvania, the man was admitted to a hospital with a severe sore throat and respiratory distress. He was diagnosed with respiratory diphtheria and died. The clinical efficacy of the diphtheria vaccine is 97%, but the man had never been immunized.
"With 53% of adults in the U.S. lacking up-to-date diphtheria immunizations, there is a risk that the disease could become re-established in the general population," said Susan J. Rehm, MD, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). "Diphtheria is an infectious disease that can easily be passed from one person to another and it is still a big problem in many countries. With our world getting increasingly smaller, we really need to take our protection against this disease seriously."
The mortality rate for diphtheria can be as high as 20% and the disease is still active in more than 80 countries. It is contracted by inhaling the bacteria directly from an infected person, and can lead to heart failure, paralysis, and coma; even death can occur in as little as a week.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Federal government report illustrates current diphtheria risks.