# Shigella sonnei outbreak — Massachusetts, 1998-01
> **Food** · Confirmed · 79 ill / 6 hosp / 0 deaths
## Outbreak
- **NORS ID:** NORS-8372a07d15c1
- **Date:** 1998-01
- **State:** Massachusetts
- **Primary mode:** Food
- **Etiology:** Shigella sonnei
- **Etiology status:** Confirmed
- **Setting:** Restaurant: Other
## Impact
- **Illnesses:** 79
- **Hospitalizations:** 6
- **Deaths:** 0
## Food vehicle

- **Food:** dips, unspecified
- **Contaminated ingredient:** —
- **IFSAC category:** Multiple

## Source
- [NORS Dashboard](https://wwwn.cdc.gov/norsdashboard/)
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