Belgian Shigella outbreak linked to cafeteria worker

Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– 52 shigellosis cases linked to one food handler over  a 2 month period.
– Food handlers can transmit Shigella in their poop without  even showing symptoms.
– If you’re ill with vomit, nausea or diarrhea do not handle food.
– Food handlers should wash hands before preparing food and after going to the bathroom.

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About Ben Chapman

Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.