I went looking for a recent foodborne Shigella outbreak in the United States — anything from the last sixty days. I could not find one that any health department had publicly announced.With norovirus, that silence has an easy explanation: norovirus is not individually reportable, most clinicians never test for it, and reporting an outbreak is encouraged rather than required. Shigella is different. Shigellosis is a nationally notifiable disease. …
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