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Drug-resistant stomach bug spreading across US: ‘Serious public health alert
NY Post ^ | 02-27-2023 | Rob Bailey-Millado

Posted on 02/27/2023 7:30:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a “serious public health” alert, warning of a nationwide spike in “extensively drug-resistant” shigellosis.

The highly contagious shigella bacterial infection attacks the intestines and causes inflammatory, sometimes bloody diarrhea, according to the CDC’s “emergency and preparedness response.”

There are about 450,000 shigellosis infections every year in the US, resulting in an estimated $93 million in direct medical costs, according to CDC data. The agency also reported that 5% of all infections in 2022 were extensively drug-resistant (XDR) — a jump from zero drug-resistant cases in 2015.

An infection is considered XDR when it doesn’t respond to antibiotics that are typically used to treat it, such as azithromycin, ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone, among others.

“XDR shigellosis is resistant to all generally recommended antibiotics in the United States, making it difficult to treat,” according to the new report. XDR shigellosis is a serious public health threat: XDR Shigella bacteria have limited antimicrobial treatment options, are easily transmissible, and can spread antimicrobial resistance genes to other enteric bacteria.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bug; drugresistant; serious; stomach
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To: Red Badger

Just wash your vegetables, people.

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

Yep. Of course. Thanks for the reminder.


41 posted on 02/27/2023 8:10:44 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thanks Joe.


42 posted on 02/27/2023 8:13:22 AM PST by fretzer
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To: MarMema

A surface for over a month? That’s what they stated about Covid as well and then found out it was a matter of 30 seconds.


43 posted on 02/27/2023 8:23:52 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shigella spread easily; it takes just a small number of bacteria to make someone ill. People with a Shigella infection can spread the infection to others for several weeks after their diarrhea ends.

You can get infected by swallowing Shigella. Some ways Shigella can get into your mouth are:

Getting Shigella on your hands and touching your mouth. Shigella can get on your hands by:

Touching surfaces, such as toys, bathroom fixtures, changing tables, and diaper pails, contaminated with Shigella bacteria from someone with an infection.

Changing the diaper of a child with a Shigella infection.
Taking care of a person with an infection, including cleaning up after the person uses the toilet.

Eating food prepared by someone with a Shigella infection.

Swallowing water you swim or play in, such as lake water or improperly treated swimming pool water.

Swallowing contaminated drinking water, such as water from a well that’s been contaminated with sewage or flood water.

Exposure to poop during sexual contact with someone with a Shigella infection or who has recently recovered from a Shigella infection.

IOW, practicing good hygiene is the best preventative ...


44 posted on 02/27/2023 8:32:30 AM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The article does not address specifically how one catches it.


45 posted on 02/27/2023 8:32:40 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And under the “leadership” of the who, something that biden and ilk would love to have us subject to, the who would declare a pandemic, and all the restrictions would be inplace, and they wouldnt let up until the next bout of viruses co es along, when new restrictions will be e forced.

And just like that the liberal world is running scared of viruses, and burying their heads in the sand out of fear. The left want the masses walking around permanently with masks on


46 posted on 02/27/2023 8:45:53 AM PST by Bob434
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To: metmom

Ingestion.


47 posted on 02/27/2023 9:00:38 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: MarMema

Use soap and water.
The alcohol hand sanitizer will not kill Ecoli.


48 posted on 02/27/2023 9:01:41 AM PST by coincheck (Salvation is for today, not tomorrow, you might not make it that far.....)
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To: mikelets456

This bug has been around for a long time. The only big news is that now they are finding resistant strains.

Its just an everyday enterobacteria- gram neg, nonmotile, facultative rod.

And not that common.

That’s what I recall...a month on surfaces. But washing will kill them. Soap works.


49 posted on 02/27/2023 9:05:36 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: coincheck

Hand sanitizers are quite effective at killing gram neg rods.

Like ecoli and shigella.


50 posted on 02/27/2023 9:09:01 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: MarMema

I’m just saying the new ones that are just around the corner. When you have people handling and cooking food without a food handlers card or a medical check up we are in deep deep Doodoo. We have friends who are border patrol agents and they say they’re so overwhelmed with the influx that they are just getting whatever info they can from them and then release them. No thorough medical examination just a real quick eyeball from head to toe and if they look healthy, they let them go.


51 posted on 02/27/2023 9:36:52 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Melinda in TN

Oh that’s gross. Yes, I guess I can understand doing away with them. I just enjoyed building my own salads.


52 posted on 02/27/2023 9:49:08 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Red Badger

I live in a small community. Not that we don’t have an occasional nutcase, but both of the places that had these would’ve seen that rather quickly. They were both located near the kitchens, and closely watched by the workers and the patrons. Around here people would be asked to leave and not return if they did these awful things.


53 posted on 02/27/2023 9:52:35 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I know there are lots of drug resistant STDs going round these days (primarily homosexual), so I always wonder if new ones are related.


54 posted on 02/27/2023 9:57:54 AM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Red Badger; metmom; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious Disease - Drug-resistant stomach bug, shigella, (India) can now be found in the USA
Currently, only 5% of the shigella bacteria are drug resistant

Red Badger (Post #6): " https://www.shigellablog.com/ "

(From the hot link) : “The bacteria can also spread if the food was handled by an infected person,”..
The presence of shigella was established after samples of blood and stools of the food-poisoning victims were tested at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital, he said.

Unhygienic, undercooked or contaminated food and water can be a source of shigella, which can cause an intestinal infection that is very contagious, said the district medical officer (DMO).
The sliced meat stacked on a spit for shawarma is slow-roasted for hours in front of a flame that can penetrate just one centimetre, said Dr Ramdas.
During rush hours, if the eatery chooses to serve fast, many customers would get undercooked meat, he said.
The mayonnaise, which is made of eggs, and vegetable salad served with the shawarma can also be a source of the bacteria
because the present weather is ideal for their multiplication, said Deputy DMO Dr A T Manoj.
“The bacteria can also spread if the food was handled by an infected person,” he said."
The public should maintain proper eating and food hygiene to prevent the spread of shigella, he said. “

55 posted on 02/27/2023 10:01:55 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, did a foreign lab make it?

Head Shake.


56 posted on 02/27/2023 10:04:27 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But on a serious note, If I am right and the Jab has seriously compromised most of the population’s auto immune system. This may be a long term string of serious infections.

Hope I’m wrong. But I see evidence that I’m not.


57 posted on 02/27/2023 10:06:45 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: FamiliarFace

It grossed us out enough to stop eating from them. LOL

I loved building my own salads but not after that. If a place is going to have a salad bar, they need an employee stationed at it to watch people since so many parents don’t watch their kids.


58 posted on 02/27/2023 10:11:15 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Unexpectedly?


59 posted on 02/27/2023 10:16:09 AM PST by Mashood
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To: Melinda in TN

It would be nice if they could have someone stationed there to serve the different things. That would solve the problem. How unfortunate that we can’t figure out how to do this anymore.


60 posted on 02/27/2023 10:58:12 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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