BY MARIA BARAN
Belleville News-Democrat (IL)
An East St. Louis student has been diagnosed with a bacterial disease, according to Douglas Clark, spokesman for District 189.
The Hawthorne Elementary student was diagnosed with shigellosis, a disease transmitted by direct or indirect fecal-oral contact or consuming contaminated food or water, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The East Side Health District informed the school earlier this week, Clark said.Continue Reading ESL student has bacterial ailment
November 2005
Northland stomach bug outbreak
By Shigella Lawyer on
Posted in Shigella Watch
2/11/2005 16:41:03
News Talk ZB (Auckland)
More people are coming down with a highly infectious illness which has broken out in Northland.
Jonathan Jarman of the Northland District Health Board says there have been 25 cases of the bacterial infection Shigellosis reported in a week.
Normally there are only a couple a year.Continue Reading Northland stomach bug outbreak