Word: shigella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such outbreaks might be arrested or avoided. Last August, babies born in Port Huron's red brick, ivy-covered hospital and sent home as normal began to be readmitted with diarrhea. Some died. Laboratory tests indicated none of the three commonest causes of the disease (bacteria of the Shigella or Salmonella groups, or a virus). In October the disease invaded the hospital's nursery. To cut down cross-infection, babies were kept in their mothers' rooms. But by year's end the death toll had reached...