Scientist believe they found the earliest evidence of a dysentery-causing parasite in a new study. Archeologists excavated the cesspits below two toilets from Iron Age Jerusalem. The research suggests ...

Since January 2025, 40 new cases have been reported, according to a county health official. Shigella bacteria cause shigellosis, which is an illness that impacts the intestines. Two dozen new cases of ...

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 ...

An uptick in dysentery, the diarrhea-inducing disease often associated with frontier times past, is on the rise in the Portland, Oregon metro area, according to new health data. Known best for causing ...

People of a certain age have long associated Oregon with dysentery, an old fashioned name for terrible diarrhea. That’s because of the 1980s video game, Oregon Trail, in which millions of unsuspecting ...

Had the U. S. been informed two months ago that Chicago was suffering an outbreak of amebic dysentery, a good many people might have stayed away from the city, with consequent loss to its Fair, hotels ...