Toxin producing Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak, United States, March to April 2011

Euro Surveill. 2011 May 19;16(20):19870.

Abstract

The Florida Department of Health, Florida, United States, is investigating a Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak. Ten cases with disease onsets from 23 March to 13 April 2011, presented with gastrointestinal symptoms of diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, cramps, chills, and/or fever, after consuming raw or lightly cooked oysters harvested from Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Symptoms were milder than those during outbreaks of epidemic (serogroup O1 and O139) Vibrio cholerae; no case required rehydration treatment or hospitalisation.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Cholera / epidemiology*
  • Cholera / prevention & control
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Female
  • Florida / epidemiology
  • Food Microbiology
  • Foodborne Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Ostreidae / microbiology*
  • Shellfish / microbiology*
  • Vibrio cholerae / isolation & purification*