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Surveillance across seven countries detected Shigella by PCR in 20.0% of diarrhoea episodes in toddlers, and found ciprofloxacin resistance reaching 37.2% — a warning for a disease with no licensed vaccine.
Two 2026 papers describe the same shift: rural incidence now exceeds urban in some years, the peak has slid to October and November, and one in six hospitalised patients progressed to severe disease.
WHO reports 19,161 suspected cases and 166 deaths in a single month, most in children under five. The country had been close to eliminating the disease.
The patient drank raw date palm sap through most of January. Thirty-five contacts are under monitoring, and the six who developed symptoms have tested negative.
Three of the four cases drank raw date palm sap in the usual December-April window. The fourth, a child who fell ill in August, did not — and the source remains under investigation.