Open AccessMILLS-REINCKE PHENOMENON AND TYPHOID CONTROL BY VACCINE
Author(s) -
Harold G. McGee
Publication year - 1920
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.10.7.585
Subject(s) - typhoid fever , typhoid vaccine , vaccination , medicine , environmental health , affect (linguistics) , demography , immunology , virology , psychology , sociology , communication
Assuming typhoid to be an index of conditions favoring other causes of death, this author calls attention to the likelihood that anti-typhoid vaccination, by attacking typhoid alone, really masks sanitary conditions and may permit unnecessary deaths. Complete eradication of typhoid through vaccination would not affect the three other deaths suggested by the Mills-Reincke hypothesis.