Drug-resistant stomach bug spreading across US: ‘Serious public health alert

NY Post ^ | 02-27-2023 | Rob Bailey-Millado

[Allegra]

Mask up and....social distance, close down businesses, send kids home from school, rat out your neighbor....

And get a couple of shots and a few boosters.

[MarMema]

I am retired but in the clinical lab it was really rare, in my experience, to encounter shigella.

We don’t need a vaccine. Seriously.

450,000 infections per year in the US. Is that vaccine worthy?

Unless it is the drug resistant thing.

Just wash your hands people.

[Ingtar]

Lovely. I just had surgery on my @ss. (Never let constipation go untreated too long — life tip). Now I have to worry about a third world disease. I already know I picked up a UTI from being in the hospital.

[Track9]

‘Third world disease… wonder where that came from.’
Your local gas station pump.

[MarMema]

All terrific advice but shigella is not a new disease.

[Red Badger]

Just wash your hands people.

Just wash your vegetables, people.

And don't eat off SALAD BARS..............

[ridesthemiles]

MARCHED RIGHT ON INTO THE USA WITH THE ILLEGAL INVADERS BIDEN LIKES SO MUCH.

MAYBE—IF HE got a case of this, he would really need his diapers !!!!

[hanamizu]

Me, too. My dad was three back in 1927 when he, his older brother, his older sister, and mom & dad arrived at Elis Island. They got the full treatment. If you didn’t pass the health exam, you weren’t admitted.

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My grandpa passed through Ellis Island in 1899. The health inspectors were especially worried about tuberculosis and an eye disease. If you were sick with something else they would hospitalize you until you got better. Their attitude apparently was err on the side of letting you in rather than the contrary.

On the other hand, my grandpa had to have a ‘sponsor’ who would agree to make sure grandpa did not become a public charge. No welfare, food stamps, etc.

[Tench_Coxe]

Another monkeypox issue (as in being spread primarily by the same transmission vector)?

[MarMema]

And even though it is non spore forming it can hang out on surfaces for over a month.

[BikerJoe]

Surely everyone flooding across our borders is thoroughly checked for heath issues ... you know like my great grandparents were.

Riiight...just like they're supposed to have a sponsor who promises to take care them so that they don't become "a ward of the state"...

[Col Frank Slade]

Put a mask on your ass ..

[FamiliarFace]

Are there salad bars anywhere anymore? The two places near me that had them don’t have them anymore. Heck, one of the places closed up. Lockdowns took care of that one. The other place is still going strong thankfully, but sadly, no more salad bar.

[Red Badger]

Ruby Tuesdays still has one last time we were there....................

[FamiliarFace]

Same for my grandparents. Grandpa came over as a child in 1897, and Grandma came as a teenager with part of her family, around 1910 or so. I don’t remember the year, maybe even as late as 1917. Both were at Ellis Island with their families until they could be examined and were shown to have no illnesses. They had to have a sponsor to make sure they wouldn’t be a burden to the government. No handouts.

[FamiliarFace]

Ahhh, I don’t live anywhere close to one of those. I didn’t even know they were still open.

[Noumenon]

The "immigrant" flood across our borders is the equivalent of every backed-up third world toilet.

Enoch Powell was right.

[Red Badger]

I stopped eating at Salad Bars years ago, way before Covid........................Remember that nutcase that went around spraying urine on salad bars?..................

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I guess if we don’t eat poop or have anal sex, all is good:

And what about all those unclean hands picking and processing produce? That is a worrisome vector.

[Melinda in TN]

“Are there salad bars anywhere anymore?”

If there are, there shouldn’t be. My husband and I stopped eating from salad bars way before Covid after watching a pack of kids go from one bin to the other licking spoons and putting them back in the food.