**Important Article Re Staph Vaccine**

[Guest guest]

Below is an article from cfids.org re a staph vaccine. Scroll

down to where it says Staphylococcal vaccine, then most important

READ THE " LAST " PARAGRAPH.

I wrote to them in October 2002 and they wrote back and said that

they had asked everyone there about it and that they didn't know what

I was talking about and could I please send them the link of

the article on their website, so I did. But as of today I still

haven't ever heard back from them. Possibly if enough people

from the group write to them we can get some more information

about this and/or find out if it really was a legitimate

article.

CC

http://www.cfids.org/archives/2001rr/2001-rr1-article01.asp

Staphylococcal vaccine. The use of staphylococcal vaccine to favor a

Th-1 predominance was studied by Swedish researchers.7 After a pilot

study of eight patients, a double bind placebo-controlled study was

performed with a group of 24 female patients with CFS and

fibromyalgia.

The patients received injections of staphylococcal preparations or

placebo approximately once a week for several months, then monthly

administrations for up to one or two years.

Several of the 13 patients who received the staphylococcal vaccine

were assessed as having minimal improvement, three as much improved,

and the remaining three as unchanged. In the placebo group, three

patients were minimally improved, while the remaining eight were

unchanged.

Following the study, all patients continued the treatment; 20 were

treated for one to two years. Nineteen of the 20 were unable to work

full-time prior to the study and one worked part-time. At a one-year

follow-up, nine of the 20 patients were working full- or part-time,

one was taking part in a internship program, and one was in the

middle of a two-year nursing program. Further studies are being

conducted.