Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC issued a health advisory alerting clinicians to a spike in extensively drug-resistant shigellosis in the ...

Shigellosis spreads by ingesting the bacteria on contaminated fingers, food or water. The number of Shigella bacteria required to cause an infection is small. As little as 10 to 100 organisms can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drug-resistant, highly infectious strain of Shigella is on the rise — what Canadians need to know about the intestinal illness ...

Just as federal public health officials issued an alert to increasing cases of drug resistance to a diarrheal disease in the United States, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is starting a ...

Educating the public on the importance of frequent hand-washing after using toilet or before serving food can prevent outbreaks of shigellosis and gastroenteritis worldwide. Shigella spreads by food ...

When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the fight to treat infections. “We’re kind of expecting phage ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO — Earlier this week, San Diegans ...

TACOMA, Wash — The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) is warning of an increase in stomach bug cases or shigellosis, particularly among unhoused populations. On Tuesday, TPCHD said so far ...

The City of Lubbock Health Department has seen an increase in shigellosis cases in Lubbock in September and October in schools and daycares. Surveillance staff have investigated 37 confirmed cases of ...

Drug-resistant shigella strains made up 5% of infections in 2022, up from 0% in 2015, the CDC said. Shigella infections can cause bloody diarrhea, stomach cramps, and fever. Most people who get ...

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The Milwaukee Health Department has confirmed dozens of cases of Shigellosis in adults and children over the past few months."Right now, we are well over 60 confirmed reports of Shigella infection in ...