Latest numbers from a Shigella outbreak in Santa Clara County show nine confirmed cases and 21 suspected cases found amongst the unhoused community, health officials said on Monday. Health officials ...

Duval County residents and zookeepers are mourning the deaths of two more animals, less than a week after a lowland gorilla died from the same highly contagious bacterial illness. Bulera, a ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — It's been over a month since LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights shut down because of a shigella outbreak. Nearly 100 customers got sick, and one is now experiencing ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — Multnomah County Health officials are sharing new details about the rise in Shigella cases in the Portland metro area. Shigella is a highly contagious bacteria that spreads through ...

Shigella isn’t new. It was discovered in 1896 by Kiyoshi Shiga, a scientist who was investigating a large epidemic of dysentery in Japan. The reason Shigella is in the news right now is because it’s ...

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent an alert to doctors on Friday that warns of an increase in an extensively drug-resistant strain of the Shigella bacteria. Shigella ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — The St. Clair County Health Department is still trying to figure out what caused an outbreak of Shigella at the LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights. More cases have been ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing a warning for a rise in extensively drug-resistant cases of the bacterial infection Shigella. "Shigella is a bacteria that has ...