Surveillance & Analysis on Shigella News & Outbreaks
Columbus health officials are investigating what they call an “unprecedented large number of Shigella illness” in the area.
Since the start of the outbreak, 771 cases have been diagnosed.
That’s the largest number of cases in any year in the last decade.
Shigella is a bacterium that causes an infection of the intestine called Shigellosis.…
Dane County health officials are dealing with an outbreak of bacterial infection.
Eighteen cases of Shigellosis have been reported in the county since Sept. 20. That’s one fewer case than all of last year.
The bacterial infection is associated with consuming water or food contaminated with fecal matter. Most of the Dane County cases are…
