Lombard Illinois Subway Shigella Outbreak
In Illinois, the Lombard Subway sandwich shop has closed as part of a DuPage County Health Department investigation of a Shigella outbreak.
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The health department released a statement saying Subway was cooperating with the probe. Shigella is a bacteria that can be spread from one infected person to the next and also can be transmitted in contaminated food.
Maryann O'Neill, principal of Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, told the Tribune that two students called in sick Wednesday with food poisoning. She said it was her understanding they had eaten at Subway. One of the students was taken to a hospital emergency room.
"It is scary,'' said O'Neill.
Shigellosis also is known as bacillary dysentery. Symptoms include diarrhea containing blood and mucus, fever, abdominal cramps, chills, and vomiting. Onset of illness occurs 12 to 50 hours from ingestion of bacteria and it can last a few days to 2 weeks.
Most Shigella outbreaks result from food, especially salads, prepared and handled by workers using poor personal hygiene. The common transmission is fecal contamination of food and water or person-to-person by fecal-oral route.
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