Seventy- eight people have been sickened by the Shigella outbreak traced to a Subway in DuPage County, according to the DuPage County Health Department.
The shop, in Lombard on Roosevelt Road, was closed after an initial investigation linked multiple customers with gastrointestinal illnesses to it during the first week of March. Health officials said the customers ate at the shop between February 24 and March 1.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the bacteria can spread from contact with contaminated human waste or by eating contaminated food. Most who are infected develop diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps beginning a day or two after exposure. Symptoms usually end about a week later.
Although the infection rarely requires hospitalization, 11 of the people infected have been hospitalized during this outbreak. Ten of those people have been released.
Each year about 14,000 cases of Shigella infections, called shigellosis, are reported although health officials believe most cases go unreported and actual numbers may be twenty times greater.
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