Decatur, IL and surrounding Macon County appears to be another hotspot for Shigella. Macon County Health officials are reporting 68 cases of Shigella since last November, with 19 cases through the first half of April.
In his blog, Paul Osborne, editor of the Decatur Tribune, reports that statewide there are about 1,300 cases
Believe it or not, a bunch of us passed through Lubbock, Texas yesterday on the way to its neighbor to the north, the town of Plainview, Texas. An item in the local newspaper caught our attention.
It seems that the great Buddy Holly’s hometown is still working its way out of a September
Shigella was the third most common food-borne illness in the United States during 2008, according to the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) of CDC’s Emerging Infections Program, which collects data from 10 U.S. states.
The number of infections and incidence per 100,000 population were reported as follows: