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Montgomery County, Ohio, health officials are investigating a case of Shigellosis in an 8-year-old child who attends a daycare center, according to a report in the Dayton Daily News.  The child is one of approximately 40 who share a classroom at Clara's Heart day care center, which closed after the child was diagnosed. 

The 8-year-old, classmates, and the center's staff members will all be tested for Shigella bacterial infections.  The Daily News interviewed Bill Wharton, spokesman for Public Health-Dayton and Montgomery  County for the article that appeared today:

"We're still in the early stages" of the investigation, Wharton said.

Clara's Heart director Val Jackson said the center conducted a "major cleaning" Tuesday.

"Every precaution has been taken," Jackson said.

The center has approximately 110 children enrolled, she said.

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Health officials are calling on parents, caretakers, and workers at day-care centers and schools to help end an outbreak of a highly contagious intestinal illness called shigellosis.

The outbreak started in early November and has spread to about 60 day cares in the city and in north St. Louis County and two in Fenton, said Michael Williams, director of the communicable disease division of the St. Louis County Health Department.

County health officials have recorded 359 cases, 331 of which struck this year. In the city, 152 people have been sickened by the bacterial disease, with about 30 new cases appearing each month, said Pamela Rice Walker, acting director of the City Health Department. Most of the sick have been preschool-age children or young elementary school children — many who have siblings in day care, she said. St. Charles County has had three cases of shigellosis in the past month, two of which were associated with day cares.

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Health department cites almost 80 cases of shigella, which can cause diarrhea, stomach pain and fever

An outbreak of a diarrheal infection has hit daycares across the county the past few months, according to the Citrus County Health Department.

Since January there have been almost 80 confirmed cases of shigella and about 30 other possible cases, assistant director of nursing Virginia Crandall said.

Shigella is an infection caused by a bacteria and can be easily passed from one person to another. Symptoms typically include diarrhea, which may include blood or mucous, abdomi-nal pain and fever. Symptoms typically begin within one to seven days of exposure and range from mild to severe.

“This is not a germ that we’ve seen very much in the last few years in Citrus County,” Crandall said.

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