February 2008

Martha Gesegnet, RN, is a blogger who writes for The Natural Health Maven.   She recently wrote about friends who were quarantined in the home with an outbreak of shigella. 

Nurse Gesegnet writes:

It seems that her 4 year old contracted
"Shigella" at a movie theatre. Shigella is
a rapidly speading intestinal "bug".

And as such,

If something will "Play in Peoria," it usually means that the rest of the country won’t be far behind.  Let’s hope that’s not true this time, however, as Peoria is experiencing a worrisome uptick  in its reported cases of shigella.

Frank Radosevich II, writing in the Peoria Jounral Star, drills down on the numbers:

Randall McClallen,