Surveillance & Analysis on Shigella News & Outbreaks
On Saturday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned consumers not to eat baby carrots produced by the Los Angeles Salad Company because the baby carrots had been identified as the source of a Shigella outbreak. According to the CFIA warning:
The affected product, Los Angeles Salad Company Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots, is labelled as
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Pasadena Health Department investigators continue to work to determine the source of a Shigella outbreak that was traced to a restaurant earlier this month. Yesterday’s Arcadia Weekly reported on the outbreak.
Pasadena Public Health Department’s ongoing shigella outbreak investigation, in coordination with Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, has identified 44 confirmed or
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The Knoxnews Web site posted a recent article on the ten largest foodborne illness outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2000 to 2004. Among the outbreaks were two Shigella outbreaks:
An outbreak of the Shigella sonnei bacteria, usually spread through human feces, infected 964 people in seven West Texas counties
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2/11/2005 16:41:03
News Talk ZB (Auckland)
More people are coming down with a highly infectious illness which has broken out in Northland.
Jonathan Jarman of the Northland District Health Board says there have been 25 cases of the bacterial infection Shigellosis reported in a week.
Normally there are only a couple a year.Continue Reading Northland stomach bug outbreak
