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Can herpes infections be good for you?
>> Mice with chronic herpes virus infections can better resist the bacterium that causes plague and a bacterium that causes one kind of food poisoning, researchers report in Nature.
Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis attributed the surprising finding to changes in the immune system triggered by the long-term presence of a latent herpes virus infection. In latent viral infections, the virus is present for the lifetime of the host in a relatively quiescent form that does not cause overt symptoms. <<
I'll still skip the cold sores and genital warts, thank you very much!
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Would you like you get that?
I did, back in 1993, while in Zermatt, Switzerland. Not very nice at all. TYPHOID.
Over two hundred persons died in two weeks.
We left to return to the U.S. the day before the Swiss Army/Govt. closed the entry in and out of Zermatt. The cause was a break in the water mains and sewerage from the farm animals entering the water supply. The first death was in our Hotel How nice to remember. Not!
I was very ill for over a month later. About a dozen of us were ill for that time.
We were in our twenty's and thirties with a ski club from New Hampshire.
The WILDCAT MOUNTAIN SKI CLUB.
Maybe because we were so fit and young it prevented us from dying? I would guess so.
Will I be safe to say that I will never ever get Typhoid (Bubonic plague)? again in my lifetime!?
Strange to think about.
-Kevin
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depending which source you choose from google, it could be 1963, 64, 67
either way, not nice at all!
jonah
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The diseases are different.
Plague is caused by Yersinia pestis.
Typhoid Fever is caused by Salmonella typhi.
The symptoms are different also.
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Bill, it was Typhoid. Over 200 people died in Zurich within two weeks
I was lucky just to be sick for a month. So were a lot of other tourists. Feel sorry for the 200 that died.
I really thought that I had Typhis at that time. My Doctor explained it to me and it was Typhoid, in fact.
The Swiss Government offerd a two week vacation for anyone that contracted Typhoid in Zurich at that time. Thinking that I had only Typhis, I never went to claim a vacation.
What a dumb 23 year-old I was at the time as well as many of our Wildcat Mountain Ski Club Members.
It was not a pleasant trip for us at all.
Live and learn.
Thanks Bill,
-Kevin
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Kevin -- especially in New Mexico, so stay away from those bats around Carlsbad! In fact, there were two plague deaths in NM last year.
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