article_snippet.sent: Outbreaks of the Shigella bacteria are not unusual, but a drug-resistant mutant super-strain of a nasty stomach bug is resistant to the antibiotic most commonly prescribed for adults.
article_snippet.sent: CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a statement: 'These outbreaks show a troubling trend in Shigella infections in the United States. '
article_snippet.sent: Drug-resistant infections are harder to treat and because Shigella spreads so easily between people, the potential for more – and larger – outbreaks is a real concern. '
article_snippet.sent: CDC Director Tom Frieden said the spike in outbreaks show a 'troubling trend' in Shigella infections across the United States .
article_snippet.sent: Shigella causes an estimated 500,000 cases of diarrhea in the United States every year.
article_snippet.sent: CDC and public health partners investigated several recent clusters of shigellosis in Massachusetts, California and Pennsylvania and found that nearly 90 percent of the cases tested were resistant to ciprofloxacin (Cipro), the first choice to treat shigellosis among adults in the United States.