Potato salad causes dysentery outbreak in České Budějovicke

An outbreak of dysentery has been reported in České Budějovicke. Around 50 people probably caught the intestinal disorder from a batch of potato salad at a canteen in the city last Friday, local hygiene officials said. An epidemiologist told reporters it was the biggest single incidence of dysentery in the city in some years, though it did not amount to an epidemic. Infected persons have been forced to stay off work and their children have been forbidden from going to traditional summer camps.