Surveillance & Analysis on Shigella News & Outbreaks
The Knoxnews Web site posted a recent article on the ten largest foodborne illness outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2000 to 2004. Among the outbreaks were two Shigella outbreaks:
An outbreak of the Shigella sonnei bacteria, usually spread through human feces, infected 964 people in seven West Texas counties
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According to a story in the Billings Gazette, at least 12 people have been hospitalized with Shigella infections since an outbreak began in Wyoming a few months ago. “The number of people coming down with shigellosis, a gastrointestinal infection caused by bacteria, has grown to at least 35 as of Monday, according to the Indian…
South Dakota health officials are warning that at least 300 people have become ill with Shigella infections since May. Children are most at risk for contracting and spreading the infection, and children age 4 and under represent 45 percent of cases. Eleven percent of victims of this outbreak have been hospitalized.
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The Billings Gazette is reporting that at least 17 people have become ill with Shigellosis in Fremont County, Wyoming. Health officials have not determined the source of the outbreak, but are concerned that infected individuals are now passing the infection from person to person.
“‘It doesn’t appear that there’s any large common source of food
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Adopt A Microbe has a brief background about Shigella dysenteriae posted. What Shigella dysenteriae has to say about itself and its cousins: “We all cause bacterial dysentery, a diarrhoea with blood and pus. We can do this because we have Shiga toxin. We can be transmitted on clothes and furniture.”
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