Thousands of outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis have occurred in schools and childcare facilities in recent years, mostly caused by norovirus and shigella spread by person-to-person contact, according to a new…
New rapid testing techniques may be helping to discover food poisoning incidents that would have otherwise been missed, causing some numbers to show an increase in incidents.
A Mexican seafood restaurant in the San Francisco area has been temporarily shut down as government health officials investigate a Shigella outbreak that has sickened nearly 200 people over the…
The CDC warns of growing antibacterial resistance in some pathogens associated with food poisoning.
The CDC is warning that shigella is becoming increasingly antibiotic resistant after a sharp rise in the number of cases where the drug resisted treatment.
