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About Shigella and Shigella Litigation and Lawsuits

Posted on March 14, 2011
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Food Service Workers at Risk of Transmitting Shigella

Posted on March 05, 2011
University Park, Pa. -- A research article published in the February issue of the Journal of Food Protection presents disturbing findings to consumers, according to a food-safety expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. In the study, a survey of food-service workers found that about 12 percent said they had come to work while sick, suffering from symptoms such as diarrhea or vomiting...

Shigella - A brief, but long, history in time

Posted on February 06, 2011
Lombard, Illinois, Subway Restaurant 2010 An outbreak of Shigella sonnei was linked to eating at the Subway Restaurant in Lombard, Illinois (DuPage County). Persons who had eaten at the restaurant between February 24 and March 1 and who had developed gastrointestinal illness were urged to see their health care providers...

Shigella Bacteria - a nasty little bug

Posted on December 04, 2010

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Lubbock Texas Shigella cases increasing

Posted on November 23, 2010
There's a bacterial infection making the rounds in the Hub City. Shigellosis is the result of a battle of bacteria. Due to an increasing number of gastrointestinal illnesses, the Lubbock Health Department is trying to spread the word about this nasty germ...

North Carolina Shigella Hits Two Elementary Schools

Posted on October 05, 2010
Several students have been diagnosed with Shigella in at least two elementary schools in New Hanover County, according to school officials. The school board called parents Monday night to explain the condition. Symptoms of Shigella include diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps...

Shigella gastroenteritis Cases Reported

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department (KCHD) is investigating a recent increase of gastrointestinal illnesses in the community. Many of the cases include school-aged children who attended several local schools. We are continuing to see some localized probable cases but the overall numbers are declining...

Broward County Shigella Outbreak Hits 81

Posted on August 11, 2010
According to the Miami Herald, an outbreak of the diarrhea-causing bacteria shigella two weeks before school starts has prompted the Broward County Health Department to call for preventive action from the public. ``Hopefully in this two-week period before school starts, we can prevent this from getting into the schools,'' said Dr...

Waco-McLennan County Public Health District Report Shigella Cases

Posted on July 02, 2010
The Waco-McLennan County Public Health District is investigating an increasing level of Shigellosis cases in McLennan County this year. Shigellosis is a disease caused by bacteria called Shigella and those infected may experience diarrhea, fever, vomiting and stomach cramps...

Outbreak of Shigellosis Hits Pittsburgh Area

Posted on June 26, 2010
The Allegheny County Health Department is taking special measures to slow an outbreak of diarrheal illness known as shigellosis. Health Department spokesman Guillermo Cole says shigella infections began to increase countywide last October and there have been 97 cases reported so far this year...

Kentucky Shigella cases number at least 67

Posted on June 10, 2010
Health officials in Ohio County are reporting three confirmed cases of Shigella.  Daviess County is already dealing with 64 confirmed cases. Health officials tell NEWS 25 there are no new cases in Daviess County, but this is the first news of the bacteria spreading around the Tri-State...

Three Children Hospitalized in Kentucky with Shigella

Posted on June 10, 2010
According to various press reports, State health official say three children were hospitalized in western Kentucky in an unusually large outbreak of a bacterial infection that causes watery diarrhea and spreads easily.  Janie Cambron, regional epidemiologist for the Green River District Health Department, said Wednesday the children have since been released after contracting shigella, a bacterial infection spread through just a tiny amount of infected fecal matter...

Breastfeeding Stops Shigella

Posted on May 30, 2010
Mothers who breastfeed their babies for at least the first six months of life are also protecting their children against shigella, a severe form of diarrhea, according to a recent Bangladeshi study. Study author Mohammed Zobayer Chisti, an assistant researcher from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh, said that stopping breastfeeding for newborns had long-term consequences...

Shigella Outbreak Hits Daviess County Kentucky

Posted on May 07, 2010
There are now 15 confirmed cases of Shigella in Daviess County, Kentucky. Health department officials are asking people to exercise good hand hygiene at the BBQ Festival this weekend. Shigella is an intestinal infection caused by bacteria. It is usually self-limiting in most individuals but can also be very serious...

Shigella Outbreak Hitting Kansas City Area

Posted on May 02, 2010
Alan Bavley of the The Kansas City Star reports on the growing outbreak of shigella in the greater Kansas City area: The Kansas City area is going through an outbreak of a nasty and very contagious diarrheal disease called shigellosis, and scrupulous hand hygiene is the best way to keep from getting or spreading it...

Lombard Subway Shigella Outbreak Tops 116

Posted on March 27, 2010
The number of affected people continues to grow as more come forward to report shigella infections after eating at a Lombard Subway restaurant. Dave Hass of the DuPage County Health Department said there are currently 116 confirmed shigella cases linked to the Subway restaurant as of today...

78 Shigella Cases at Lombard Subway Prompt Three Lawsuits

Posted on March 19, 2010
A third lawsuit has been filed by Marler Clark in the Shigella food poisoning outbreak from a Lombard Subway restaurant. Wheeling resident Michael Carpino consumed a Subway sandwich on Feb. 25, and fell ill by the following day. The lawsuit states that 45-year-old Carpino is still suffering from Shigella infection symptoms...

Third Lombard Shigella Subway Lawsuit Filed

Posted on March 17, 2010

Food Saftey Infosheet on Subway Shigella Outbreak

Posted on March 12, 2010
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Second Subway Shigella Suit Served

Posted on March 12, 2010

Chicago Area Subway Serves Shigella

Posted on March 04, 2010
The DuPage County Health Department is investigating the cause of food-related illnesses traced to a Subway restaurant in Lombard. A cluster of gastrointestinal illnesses has been traced primarily to customers of the sandwich shop at 1009 E. Roosevelt Road in Lombard, according to a health department news release...

Allegheny County Health Department Warns of Shigella Outbreak

Posted on February 17, 2010
The Allegheny County Health Department today reported that a growing number of county residents are being diagnosed with a diarrheal illness known as shigellosis. A news release said 60 shigellosis cases have been reported countywide since October -- 34 so far this year -- compared to just 12 cases of the disease in all of 2008 and five in 2007...

Shigella Outbreaks - Sporadic Shigellosis

Posted on January 31, 2010
Risk Factors for Sporadic Shigellosis, FoodNet 2005 Clinton C. Haley, Kanyin L. Ong, Katrina Hedberg, Paul R. Cieslak, Elaine Scallan, Ruthanne Marcus, Sanghyuk Shin, Alicia Cronquist, Jennifer Gillespie, Timothy F. Jones, Beletshachew Shiferaw, Candace Fuller, Karen Edge, Shelley M...

About Shigella and Shigella Blog Updated

Posted on January 30, 2010
About Shigella and its companion Shigella Blog were updated once again after extensive revisions by experts in the field and the staff and lawyers at Marler Clark, LLP PS, the only law firm in the United States that focuses its entire practice on foodborne illness litigation...

Shigella Still Spreading in St. Louis Day Care Centers

Posted on December 07, 2009
According to the Post-Dispatch, for the second time in two months, St. Louis city health officials have issued an alert about outbreaks of highly contagious intestinal bacteria that are usually spread by children. There have been 148 cases of shigellosis in 2009, compared with 11 cases by this date last year, according to the St...

Childcare-associated Shigellosis outbreak clues researchers into best treatment, management strategies

Posted on November 20, 2009
Enforcing simple hygiene strategies in childcare centers can help limit Shigellosis transmission and may combat growing antimicrobial-resistance patterns among these organisms, according to CDC and Missouri State Department of Health and Senior Services officials who investigated a Shigella sonnei outbreak that affected 693 people and spanned 44 licensed daycare facilities in northwest Missouri from May to October 2005...

Bacteriophages to be used by Army to kill Shigella

Posted on October 16, 2009
An émigré scientist from the former Soviet Union is working to develop a new treatment for diarrhea based on a century-old remedy commonly used in his former homeland. Alexander Sulakvelidze, chief scientist for privately held Baltimore biotech Intralytix, says the bacteriophage-based probiotic preparation shows promise for managing shigella infections, a "significant worldwide cause of diarrheal disease" — and apparently the U...

Shigella Hits St. Louis

Posted on October 09, 2009
St. Louis city health officials on Wednesday reported a sharp increase in cases of a highly contagious intestinal bacteria that is typically spread by children.  There have been 67 cases of shigellosis from July 1 through Monday, compared to nine cases for all of 2008, according to the St...

NIH Grants $2.87M for Development of Treatment for C. difficile and Shigella Gastrointestinal Infections

Posted on October 03, 2009
NIH has awarded a group of researchers $2.87 million for preclinical development of an oral drug to treat C. difficile and Shigella. The consortium is led by Brigham Young University (BYU) and includes SRI International, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and McMaster University...

Shigella And Other Diseases Are Killing People In Papua New Guinea

Posted on September 12, 2009
Thirty people have died in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from the severe form of dysentery called Shigella that has infected 700 others. While PNG's limited health system is dealing with Shigella, to the north in Wasu, 13 people have died amid the country's first outbreak of cholera and 200 others have contracted the water-borne disease...

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