Three West Michigan counties are experiencing a Shigella outbreak, the Muskegon Chronicle reports. 

Eight cases of shigella have been confirmed in Muskegon County, said county health department director Ken Kraus. He said Kent and Ottawa counties also have confirmed several cases of shigella.

Kraus said shigella was likely being spread in Muskegon County for a

Lubbock, Texas was a sleepy panhandle town with a powerful radio station when Buddy Holly exploded on the music scene.   Today, its probably best known for the sprawling Texas Tech campus where Bobby Knight went to coach college basketball before he retired earlier this year.  Bobby Knight was also known for exploding occasionally.

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Madison and Dane counties in Wisconsin are experiencing an outbreak of Shigella and Bill Novak at The Capital Times decided it was time to "give it to ’em straight."  For example:

The infection is usually passed from one person to another when the first person has improperly washed hands, then handled food or an object

Andy Gammill at the Indianapolis Star reports a new strategy is underway in the Hoosier State’s capital city to combat the ongoing outbreak of shigella.  He reports that:

Ten months and 500 cases into a shigella outbreak, health officials are visiting every licensed child-care center in Indianapolis in a new effort to stop the spread

The Westside Gazette, which serves the South Florida minority community, is out with a report on how Shigella is sweeping across the region.   The Gazette says:

Shigellosis — a potentially dangerous inflammatory disease of the bowel, and a cause of dysentary brought on by a group of harmful bacteria closely related to the Salmonella

You have only to look at the pictures (we don’t have ’em)  to know that a good time was had by all at this year’s Oregon Country Fair, held earlier this month near Eugene.   However, at least eight people left with something not so nice as a way to remember the free-living fair.

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Poor Ohio!   Its taken a brunt from the Nebraska Beef E. coli outbreak.  It’s had ten cases of Salmonella Saintpaul.   And, now its in the middle of a nasty outbreak of Shigella.

According to Channel 4 in Columbus, the NBC affiliate,  health officials have confirmed 148 cases of Shigellosis — an intestinal bacteria infection in