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What the CDC’s drug-resistant Shigella report actually found

Science & SpaceOctober 9, 2026

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CDC MMWR: Emergence of Extensively Drug-Resistant Shigellosis, United States, 2011–2023; April 9, 2026 CDC: Treatment of Shigella Infection, recovery, laboratory testing and symptoms requiring medical attention CDC Health Alert Network: Increase in Extensively Drug-Resistant Shigellosis, including specialist consultation CDC: About Shigella Infection, symptoms and routes of transmission CDC: Preventing Shigella Infection, handwashing, food handling and sexual-contact precautions

Credits cover the single unchanged 2014 CDC laboratory photograph used in this article. The CDC Public Health Image Library identifies Todd Parker as the photographer and makes this image available as public domain, requesting CDC/photographer credit and identification of CDC as the free source. The caption preserves that attribution and distinguishes the archival specimen from an identified XDR strain. This article uses no Instagram slide, generated imagery or text overlay. Original OddityDrop reporting is separate from the photograph’s public-domain status.

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Pale green Shigella sonnei colonies grow in streaks and separate round clusters across blue-green laboratory agar, seen under magnification.

Creator / photographer: Todd Parker, Ph.D. / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Credit line: Photo: CDC / Todd Parker, Ph.D. Free image source: CDC Public Health Image Library, image 17186.
Rights holder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; public-domain U.S. government work
License / usage: Public domain; CDC requests attribution to CDC and the photographer and identification of CDC as the free source.
Changes: Unchanged original photograph. The existing local file had a .jpg extension despite containing PNG data; it was copied byte-for-byte to a correctly named .png file. No crop, overlay, generated element or pixel modification.

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