Does your child have diarrhea?

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  Here’s the poop
  
  Your child’s diarrhea might be caused by a germ called SHIGELLA.
  
  SHIGELLA are bacteria that cause about [500,000 cases] of DIARRHEA in the United States each year.
  
  Symptoms of SHIGELLA illness usually begin 1 to 2 days after becoming infected with the germ, and can include:
  
  • Diarrhea (sometimes bloody)
  
  • Fever
  
  • Stomachache
  
  Visit CDC’s Shigella website for more information: www.cdc.gov/shigella
  
  CS263230B
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  shigella-child-diarrhea-508c.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Dysentery, Bacillary Shigella
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d295cafb23d7bbf4352384bed4f26559edee37e2ccecef2f8f0287da92e5ecde
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/59250/cdc_59250_DS1.pdf
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