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Ohio Marks Increases in Number of Shigella Cases

Posted on December 20, 2008
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Ohio Marks Increases in Number of Shigella Cases

Posted on December 20, 2008
We've noticed that Ohio has really come in for massive increases in the number of Shigella cases it is experiencing.   The latest figures from just two counties illustrate the point. WHIO-TV in Dayton reports this: We have new information about a bacterial disease that is making hundreds of people sick here in the Miami Valley...

Ohio Marks Increases in Number of Shigella Cases

Posted on December 20, 2008
We've noticed that Ohio has really come in for massive increases in the number of Shigella cases it is experiencing.   The latest figures from just two counties illustrate the point. WHIO-TV in Dayton reports this: We have new information about a bacterial disease that is making hundreds of people sick here in the Miami Valley...

Muskegon County, Michigan Flights Shigella Outbreak With Hand Washing Campaign

Posted on December 15, 2008
 When we last left Muskegon County, Michigan's emerging Shigella outbreak here in early November, there were eight confirmed cases.   As of last week, the number of confirmed cases stood at 47 on Thursday; most of the victims are under 10 years of age...

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Muskegon County, Michigan Flights Shigella Outbreak With Hand Washing Campaign

Posted on December 15, 2008
 When we last left Muskegon County, Michigan's emerging Shigella outbreak here in early November, there were eight confirmed cases.   As of last week, the number of confirmed cases stood at 47 on Thursday; most of the victims are under 10 years of age...

Shigella Outbreak Hits Cash-Strapped Western Michigan

Posted on November 05, 2008
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...

Shigella Outbreak Hits Cash-Strapped Western Michigan

Posted on November 05, 2008
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...

Shigella Strikes Sydney Gay Community-Health Officials Call For Precautions Now

Posted on October 28, 2008
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 the faeces-transmitted bacteria was very infectious so gay men should start taking some extra precautions now to limit the spread and duration of the outbreak...

Shigella Strikes Sydney Gay Community-Health Officials Call For Precautions Now

Posted on October 28, 2008
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 the faeces-transmitted bacteria was very infectious so gay men should start taking some extra precautions now to limit the spread and duration of the outbreak...

Shigella Explodes In Lubbock, Texas

Posted on October 08, 2008
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...

Shigella Explodes In Lubbock, Texas

Posted on October 08, 2008
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...

Was Sweden's Top Business Group Target of Food-borne Terrorism?

Posted on September 30, 2008
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 purpose to people...

Was Sweden's Top Business Group Target of Food-borne Terrorism?

Posted on September 30, 2008
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 purpose to people...

Madison, Wisconsin Gets 'A Talking To' About Shigella

Posted on September 20, 2008
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 that gets contaminated with the bacteria, with the second person eating the contaminated food or handling the object...

Madison, Wisconsin Gets 'A Talking To' About Shigella

Posted on September 20, 2008
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 that gets contaminated with the bacteria, with the second person eating the contaminated food or handling the object...

New Strategy To Fight Shigella Underway In Indianapolis

Posted on September 02, 2008
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 of the bacterial infection...

New Strategy To Fight Shigella Underway In Indianapolis

Posted on September 02, 2008
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 of the bacterial infection...

8 Shigella Cases Now Linked To Oregon Country Fair

Posted on August 16, 2008
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 sick one to four days later as being part of the outbreak...

Shigella "Sweeping Across" South Florida

Posted on August 06, 2008
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 virus — is currently sweeping across Palm Beach County and South Florida with over-crowded minority and immigrant communities particularly impacted...

What is Shigella?

Posted on July 30, 2008
Shigella is a bacterium that belongs to a small group of pathogens (including E. coli O157:H7 and Cryptosporidium) that can infect the gut after the ingestion of relatively few organisms, and can cause sudden and severe diarrhea (gastroenteritis) in humans...

Oregon Country Fair Blamed For Shigella Outbreak

Posted on July 30, 2008
You have only to look at the picture to the left 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...

Cases Of Diarrhea-Causing Bacteria Increase In Ohio

Posted on July 26, 2008
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 the Ohio city...

Insider Offers Explanation on Shigella Outbreak Among New York's Jewish Communities

Posted on June 27, 2008
When we reported earlier this year on the Shigella outbreaks being experienced by the Jewish communities of the Lower Hudson and Brooklyn in New York State, we did wonder if it might have something to do with religious or cultural practices. Our last report, Shigella Outbreak In New York Spreads Across Hudson River can be found here...

One Last Year; Corpus Christi Area Has Seen 68 Cases of Shigella So Far This Year

Posted on June 14, 2008
"Bacterial infection spreads through area" is the headline today in the Corpus Christi, TX Caller-Times.  The story by writer David Kassabian tells of the Shigella outbreak now occurring in Nueces and San Patricio counties in the Corpus Christi area...

Texas Has A Shigella Hotspot In It & It Is Called Karnes County

Posted on June 04, 2008
Texas is the latest state to report a local outbreak of Shigella.  The location is Karnes County, where parents in all  four school districts in the county have been warned about the outbreak.  The warning came in the form of a letter from the Texas Department of Health Services...

Iowa's Scott County, Known For Round Barns, Sees Uptick in Shigella

Posted on May 31, 2008
Iowa's Quad-City Times is reporting on an outbreak of Shigella.   The newspaper says the number of shigellosis cases in Scott County, Iowa  has increased dramatically over the past few weeks. According to health department officials,  typically there might be five Shigella cases a month reported in Scott County...

Shigella Is Having Its Way With Arkansas

Posted on May 27, 2008
Little Rock, Arkansas---specifically Pulaski County-- is Ground Zero for a Shigella outbreak that has reached 18 counties in the Razorback State.   Arkansas has already recorded more cases of Shigella in 2008 than it did during all of last year...

WHO Didn't Bother To Tell Taiwan About 2007 Shigella Outbreak

Posted on May 15, 2008
Hou Sheng-mou, writing today (05/16/08) in the Taiwan Journal takes a look at "The World Health Report 2007--A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century."The Taiwan Journal writer notes the report  "elucidates the importance of cooperation and information sharing among countries in the fight against disease...

Shigella Outbreak In New York Spreads Across Hudson River

Posted on May 07, 2008
Last month,  we reported on a Shigella outbreak in New York's Lower Hudson River Valley involving the Jewish Community.  It was centered on Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties, just outside New York City.Now it appears that outbreak has spread to the Borough Park and Williamsburg communities in Brooklyn...

Standing Rock Indian Reservation Is Center Of Shigella Outbreak In South Dakota

Posted on May 03, 2008
The great Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull, lived, died, and may be buried on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Mobridge, South Dakota.   The actual location of Sitting Bull's grave is the subject of historical dispute.  There is no dispute that the 8,500 Sioux who today live on the Standing Rock are at the center of an outbreak of Shigella that now concerns the South Dakota Department of Health...

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