Shigella is indeed a very frequent cause of foodborne illness. It is estimated, in fact, that more than 17,000 people become infected by Shigella every year in the USA. The routes of transmission are typically food and person-to-person contact, which is why Shigella is a frequent cause of outbreaks at daycare centers.
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Shigella outbreak at Subway: sanitation requirements for Illinois restaurants
By Drew Falkenstein on
Posted in Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
When an outbreak happens at a restaurant, as opposed to an outbreak from a food item sold in grocery stores, the cause is frequently that one of the restaurant’s employees was ill and contaminated food. Often, other employees in the restaurant become sick as well, which can cause the problem of illness amongst customers to…