A Milkborne Outbreak of Shigellosis in Madison County, Tenn.

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Shigellosis in Sitka, Alaska, 1968: Epidemiologic Study

“…Large outbreaks of shigellosis in the United States usually are confined to institutions for the mentally retarded, psychiatric hospitals, ghettos, and Indian reservations, where sanitary facilities or good personal hygiene are minimal or lacking (2)(3)(4)(5). In Sitka the original source of the outbreak could not be identified, but the following epidemiologic data support the supposition that person-to-person transmission was the subsequent mode of spread.…”

“…SHIGELLOSIS in epidemic form has been less common than salmonellosis. Sporadic outbreaks have been associated with contaminated food and water, but in recent years community outbreaks from a common source have been reported infrequently in the United States (1)(2)(3). This decline has been attributed to improved housing and sanitation (4).…”

Political leadership in Zapatista Mexico: Marcos, celebrity, and charismatic authority

“…48 See Erikson (1958;1970). 49 Fromm's general thesis is that individuals in modern society find themselves helpless and bewildered by constant pressures; this general insecurity and lack of existential orientation are negative by-products of the condition of 'freedom' that often instigate a desire to escape life.…”