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Shigellosis Outbreak Associated With an Unchlorinated Fill-and-Drain Wading Pool—Iowa, 2001

Author(s) -

Wading Pool

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

jama

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688

H-Index - 680

eISSN - 1538-3598

pISSN - 0098-7484

DOI - 10.1001/jama.286.16.1964-jwr1024-2-1

Subject(s) - outbreak , shigellosis , medicine , public health , health department , diarrhea , shigella sonnei , shigella , environmental health , virology , salmonella , nursing , biology , bacteria , genetics

On June 15, 2001, local physicians reported 11 cases of diarrhea to a county health department. Stool samples from two of these persons were culture confirmed as Shigella sonnei, one person was hospitalized. A preliminary investigation found that nine of these persons recently had visited a large city park with a wading pool. The Iowa Department of Public Health was asked to assist in an investigation of this outbreak. This report summarizes the results of the investigation, which implicated the inadequately disinfected wading pool as the source of the outbreak and presents strategies for preventing such outbreaks.

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