Surveillance & Analysis on Shigella News & Outbreaks
Tri-State health officials say they’ve experienced an outbreak of shigella in the past few months, but that they’ve got the illness under control.
Shigella is a bacteria that causes an infectious disease whose symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever – especially in young children.
Dr. Larry Holditch, medical director of the Cincinnati Health Department,…
A small outbreak of the intestinal infection known as shigellosis has been recorded in the past three weeks in Mobile County, the first outbreak health workers have seen in the area since 2002, according to the Mobile County Health Department.
Shigellosis, caused by shigella bacteria, can be marked by dysentery, blood in the stool, diarrhea…
