dysentery

Example Sentences

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“It contributes to ill health, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, water-related diseases, and it contributes to conflicts over water.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

You and/or your ancestors didn’t die of dysentery.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2024

By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2024

Amin Ahmed Ali fed her tiny son serum through a syringe - she has six-month-old twins slowly recovering from weeks of dysentery.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2024

But we’ve had just as many guys taken out with dysentery and influenza.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool