If all goes well, you won’t have died of dysentery — unlike in the dysentery-loving Oregon Trail video game — because a brave volunteer took one for the team and tested out a vaccine for the bacteria ...

Dysentery is an infection of the intestines which causes the passage of bloody stools mixed with mucus. It is caused either by bacteria such as Shigella, or by parasites such as Entamoeba. These forms ...

A highly contagious disease is alarmingly on the rise in one US state. Cases of dysentery, also called shigellosis, are hiking up in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon, according to the ...

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Sindh has seen an outbreak of diarrhea and dysentery in recent as more than 181,000 cases have been reported so far this year. Health practitioners attribute the surge in cases to contaminated water ...

The lack of public restrooms remains an issue across the country. In Portland, there are about 17 public restrooms per 100,000 citizens, according to some estimates. Public restrooms offer a ...

A healthy gut is a sign of a healthy body. But, it is also a fact that once a year many of us suffer from some sort of ...