<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9d43245c-f89d-415c-af7e-fd73dc824a75/4AA67345-360F-4F93-BBBB-95DC084AFB6B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/" href="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/" style="font-size: 11px;">bleaknews.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/"><P><STRONG>Area:</STRONG> USA, State of Tennessee, , Chattanooga</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/"><P><STRONG>The name of Hazard:</STRONG> Typhoid Fever (Susp. Human) <STRONG>Number of Infected person(s):</STRONG> 2</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/"><P><STRONG>Description:</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/">Local health officials have identified two confirmed cases and one probable case of typhoid fever, a potentially life-threatening disease that is common in developing countries.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/">Cases of typhoid fever in Chattanooga are not unheard of, but those sickened usually have contracted the disease while traveling internationally, said Margaret Zylstra, epidemiologist with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department. None of the children sickened locally had been outside Tennessee recently, Ms. Zylstra said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/"> “That is a little bit more unusual, but across the country that does happen,” she said. “We’re still currently working on an investigation”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/">Symptoms of typhoid fever include high fever, headache, malaise, abdominal pain, liver and spleen swelling and sometimes diarrhea or a rash</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/"> I don’t think I’ve ever seen it</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2009-06-06-112718-epidemic-hazard-usa/">a Chattanooga pediatrician, said Friday.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4AA67345-360F-4F93-BBBB-95DC084AFB6B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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