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a serious disease that causes very frequent evacuation of fluid stools and a loss of blood
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Anyone who spent their childhood playing the Oregon Trail video game knows that a persistent danger of the time period in which the game takes place was dying of dysentery.
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Alex Knapp, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Fewer than half of the territory's hospitals and clinics remain operational and are overwhelmed with the injured, with aid agencies reporting that doctors are struggling to treat a huge caseload of dysentery and pneumonia.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2024
Vicious fighting occurred in gruesome conditions, with soldiers suffering from malaria, dengue fever, dysentery and tropical ulcers in a rain-sodden labyrinth so dense that those who left the trail were often never seen again.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Such testing is critical to fighting waterborne illnesses such as dysentery and typhoid fever.
—Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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Alex Knapp, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Fewer than half of the territory's hospitals and clinics remain operational and are overwhelmed with the injured, with aid agencies reporting that doctors are struggling to treat a huge caseload of dysentery and pneumonia.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2024
Vicious fighting occurred in gruesome conditions, with soldiers suffering from malaria, dengue fever, dysentery and tropical ulcers in a rain-sodden labyrinth so dense that those who left the trail were often never seen again.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Such testing is critical to fighting waterborne illnesses such as dysentery and typhoid fever.
—Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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“Dysentery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dysentery. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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