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
Up to 200 people in Sydney, mostly gay men, are infected with an antibiotic-resistant gut infection, according health officials in Australia. It has been identified as an outbreak of shigella by health clinics in the largely gay Darlinghurst area.
According to the Sydney Star Observer, CEO Stevie Clayton of the gay advocacy group ACON said
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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Most people forget, or choose not to think about it, but food and water can be weapons of mass distruction.
Sweden may just have experienced a little taste of this possibility. At a minimum, Sweden joins the club of those areas that have found out food and water can be used to deliver poison on
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
As it turns out, there were eight cases of Shigella linked to the Oregon Country Fair. We previously reported here, Oregon Country Fair Blamed For Shigella Outbreak, on two cases.
Oregon health officials are considering anyone sick with diarrhea for more than 48 hours and who attended the July 10-13 fair, and then became
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
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