as in shigellosis
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a serious disease that causes very frequent evacuation of fluid stools and a loss of blood
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Recent Examples of dysentery
Parents desperately tried to seek help as their children became infected with dysentery, dengue fever and malaria.
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Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
Flies do spread germs that cause diseases like dysentery, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, food poisoning, and cholera.1 Because of this, discard any food flies have come in contact with.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
After landing in a part of the Dutch East Indies that is now Indonesia, Earhart got dysentery—a dangerous infection in an era before antibiotics.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
In summer, the heat led to outbreaks of cholera and dysentery.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
Flies do spread germs that cause diseases like dysentery, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, food poisoning, and cholera.1 Because of this, discard any food flies have come in contact with.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
After landing in a part of the Dutch East Indies that is now Indonesia, Earhart got dysentery—a dangerous infection in an era before antibiotics.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
In summer, the heat led to outbreaks of cholera and dysentery.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dysentery
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Housing is a major factor in the spread, say Portland health officials The dysentery infection currently spreading most prominently among Multnomah County is shigellosis, the most common form of dysentery infection caused by the shigella bacteria.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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Two years ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control began tracking a sharp rise in cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis — infections by particular strains of Shigella bacteria that are impervious to most antibiotics.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec. 2024
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Symptoms of the infection include diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, fever, chills, dangerously low blood pressure and blistering lesions.—
Mollye Barrows,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Symptoms of foodborne illnesses include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramps and fever, according to the CDC.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Dysentery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dysentery. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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