Posted on 12/27/2023 11:56:50 AM PST by Red Badger
Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties have reported 45 cases of the bacteria in December, with nine different strains observed in the Portland metro area since October.
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Multnomah County is encouraging residents to watch their hygiene after a boost in shigella cases was observed in Old Town Portland.
Shigella is a bacteria that spreads via fecal matter, and creates symptoms that include fever, stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea. It can last anywhere from three to 10 days.
“Shigella spreads when one person’s infected poop gets into another person’s mouth through food or water, from objects or surfaces with shigella bacteria on them, or during sex,” Multnomah County said, according to KOIN 6. “Shigella spreads very easily. Even a very small amount is enough to make someone sick.”
Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties have reported 45 cases of the bacteria in December, with nine different strains observed in the Portland metro area since October.
The Portland Police Bureau’s Central Bike Squad also joined in on the calls for awareness, making a post about hygiene on Instagram on Dec. 22.
Previously, Multnomah County discovered a "cluster" of drug-resistant shigella cases in November, with 16 cases found in the Portland metro area since September.
A total of 218 cases have been reported in 2023, with the county saying that the majority of strains penetrate the region by way of international travelers and “social-sexual networks.”
“Local disease patterns suggest that fecal-oral spread through sexual contact may account for between half and more than two thirds of all cases without international travel. The rest are typically attributed to other types of person-to-person spread including outbreaks among populations with lack of hygiene, shelter, and sanitation, and among people who use illicit substances,” county officials explained to KOIN 6 News.
The county added that “during 2020 a single strain of Shigella caused multiple clusters among men who have sex with men, persons experiencing homelessness, as well as causing outbreaks at a food cart, and separately, a healthcare facility. Multnomah County epidemiology immediately identified these shifts into defined outbreaks and were successful in stopping illness spread from the food cart as well as within the healthcare facility.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that there are approximately 450,000 shigella infections in the United States every year. Health officials say that while most people will recover from the illness within a week or two, symptoms can sometimes last longer and be more critical to those with weakened immune systems.
Oregonians are Dems and just cannot break long term behavior patterns.
Like “Don’t try to teach a pig to play the piano; you will not eventually succeed and it will annoy the pig.”🐖
Doesn’t that require dead bodies in the streets?..................
“The cholera bacteria is passed through feces (poop). It is spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated by the feces (poop) of an infected person. This occurs more often in underdeveloped countries lacking proper water supplies and sewage disposal”
“This occurs more often in underdeveloped countries”......so Portland makes the perfect petri dish 👌
If only there was a way to stop the problem….🤔
For now.
Well, s***.
And don’t forget Hepatitis.
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of poop
I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothin’ left
‘Cause I’ve been crappin and fornicatin so long that
Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone
They been spendin’ most their lives
Livin’ in a Left wing paradise
They been spendin’ most their lives
Livin’ in a Left wing paradise
They been spendin’ most their lives
Livin’ in a Left wing paradise
Portland ‘is a terrible place, we would never go back there!’.(with a dot Indian accent)
Nice.
Excellent!
Couldn't happen to a nastier city.
Shigella finds new home.
Translated:
Gays and illegals.
Blame the rain....
I’m darn glad I live in the country out here in central Kansas. None of that here, yet. Been clear up the coast in pretty much every major city out there. Pretty disgusting. I could live in Astoria, OR, nice town, at least when I was there.
I drove I-70 clear across Kansas both ways.
Fell asleep at the wheel, woke up in Denver..................
lol!
Aw shucks, you missed two of the world’s greatest tourist attractions: “The World’s Largest Ball of Twine”, up in Cawker City (The Cawker City Chamber of Commerce is compensating in twine for any publicity I can give them.) Also, Mount Sunflower, although not a true mountain, is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Kansas. At 4,039 feet. Whenever I drive out there I start to experience hypoxia, high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE).
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