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Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
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Preventing Shigellosis

Minimizing Your Risk

Wash your hands 

  • Wash hands after using the bathroom and changing diapers, and before handling or eating any food.
  • Wash hands before preparing food for yourself or others.
  • Make sure that persons with diarrhea, especially children, wash their hands carefully and frequently with soap to reduce the risk of spreading the infection.
    • This is particularly important in daycare/preschool situations, where many outbreaks have occurred due to person-to-person spread.
  • Hand Hygiene
    Learn more about the importance of handwashing and the proper way to wash hands.

Keep ill children home from daycare and preschool

  • Children should not attend daycare or preschool with diarrhea.
  • Children and adults may be subject to certain restrictions from daycare/preschool or food service when they are ill with a diarrheal illness.
  • Restrictions on Child Care Attendance for Children or Staff in a Daycare or Preschool

Use caution when swimming

  • Avoid swallowing lake or pool water while swimming.
  • Anyone with a diarrheal illness should avoid swimming in public pools or lakes, sharing baths with others, and preparing food for others.
  • Healthy Swimming
    CDC; Contains information on recreational water illnesses.
     

Do you suspect that you have a foodborne or waterborne illness? Visit reporting suspected foodborne/waterborne illnesses.

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Last Updated: 06/30/2025

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