Shigella sonnei outbreak associated with contaminated drinking water--Island Park, Idaho, August 1995.
On August 20, 1995, the District 7 Health Department requested the Idaho Department of Health to assist in investigating reports of diarrheal illness among visitors to a resort in Island Park in eastern Idaho; Shigella sonnei had been isolated from stool cultures of some cases. This report summarizes the findings of the investigation, which implicated contaminated drinking water as the cause of the outbreak.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006294:Health Resorts; D006801:Humans; D007061:Idaho / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012764:Shigella sonnei / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014881:Water Supply