Blake, who recently helped investigate an outbreak of shigellosis in Angola, said he could not cite death rates for shigellosis in Africa.
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Blake, who recently helped investigate an outbreak of shigellosis in Angola, said he could not cite death rates for shigellosis in Africa.
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Shigellosis, the gastrointestinal infection caused by shigella bacteria, is common in developing countries and is caused by contamination of food and water.
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Later estimates by Czech sources put the death toll at about 1, 700, with most deaths due to an epidemic of shigellosis.
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The 1987 gathering in North Carolina experienced an outbreak of highly contagious shigellosis ( a . k . a . dysentery ) causing diarrhea.
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Greenblatt said that in 1996 a medical student contracted shigellosis in the same lab, but that was the only previous case he knew of.
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If shigellosis is suspected and it is not too severe, letting it run its course may be reasonable usually less than a week.
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Which makes the discovery that parsley was responsible for seven outbreaks of shigellosis, a food-borne illness, last summer all the more remarkable.
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Shigellosis, which occurs within 12 to 24 hours and lasts three to five days, causes fever, serious abdominal cramps, nausea and diarrhea.
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People who enter water with high bacteria levels have a greater risk of contracting gastrointestinal diseases, including salmonella, cholera, shigellosis and hepatitis A.
