dysentery
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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
Aid agencies say doctors in Gaza are also struggling to treat a huge caseload of dysentery, pneumonia, and severe skin diseases because of the collapse of the health sector.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024
He came down with dysentery and ended up in a grubby hospital in Port-au-Prince, on a floor that lacked a toilet.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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