Drug-Resistant Shigellosis Spreading: CDC

medpagetoday ^

[BenLurkin]

Multidrug-resistant shigellosis, much of it associated with international travel, is spreading in the U.S., the CDC is warning.

Over a 9-month period, a strain of Shigella sonnei resistant to several antibiotics caused intestinal illness in 243 people in 32 states and Puerto Rico, the agency said in the April 3 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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Working with state and local health officials, CDC disease detectives found 157 such cases had occurred from May 24, 2014, through Feb. 28, 2015, with large clusters in three states -- 45 cases in Massachusetts, 25 in California, and 18 in Pennsylvania.

Health officials in San Francisco also detected 95 cases of ciprofloxacin-resistant shigellosis, including nine that were tested using PFGE and were included in the PulseNet cluster.

[Cold Heart]

International travel. The new euphemism for illegal alien.

[null and void]

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[null and void]

I note that they don’t care enough to tell us which countries to avoid...

[BenLurkin]

[Slambat]

Shigellosis is an infectious disease caused by a group of bacteria called Shigella.
Symptoms of Shigella infection include diarrhea (often bloody), fever, and stomach cramps starting a day or two after exposure to the bacteria. Shigellosis usually resolves in 5 to 7 days

Most Shigella infections are caused by the bacterium passing from stools or soiled fingers of one person to the mouth of another person. This happens when basic hygiene and handwashing habits are inadequate and can happen during certain types of sexual activity. It may also be acquired from eating contaminated food.

The spread of Shigella can be prevented by hand washing with soap, basic food safety preparations, proper disposal of soiled diapers, and avoiding swallowing water from ponds, lakes, or untreated pools and avoiding restaurants that hire
wetbacks.

[ConservingFreedom]

I didn't realize that's what they meant by "multicultural."

[optiguy]

From what I could find, no info on which countries, only “developing” ones.

[Born to Conserve]

They don’t say where the outbreaks are — which neighborhoods of illegals are supplying fast food workers who wipe their butts with their bare hands before handling your food?

[Rockpile]

I got to enjoy this treat courtesy of eating in Mexican food restaurants that used imported produce from Mexico.

[Lil Flower]

My daughter got this when she was in kindergarten after hurricane Katrina. The health dept traced it to her school and contaminated fruit from the coast, which is where we live. It was awful. It took her a while to regain the weight she lost.

And wouldn’t you know, the stupid State Board of Education truancy dept sent me a letter telling me how much they valued my child getting an education and that I should value it too. Imagine my anger first and foremost as a mother, and as a nurse who understands how contagious shigella is, getting this letter. Well as I like to say, I let my Eight Mile “hang out,” as in Eight Mile, Alabama, called the lady at the truancy dept., let her know that the health dept believed my daughter was exposed at one of the state’s fine public schools, and that my daughters health and the health of those other students at that moment was more important than her learning how to color.

I also told her if she had a problem with that I’d be happy to take her to school so she could expose all the other students and teachers.

From that day until the day she went back to school, that lady and the principal called every afternoon to see how my daughter was doing. Not another word was said to me about her being absent from kindergarten.

[Lazamataz]

This stuff is now CIPRO RESISTANT?

We're all gonna ****ing die.

[acapesket]

I could not take Cipro on my best day, for some of this that stuff is bad juju!
Take a little bit of colloidal silver in clean H20.
You will stay good to go!
And Yes, Laz, I realize you are joking!