dysentery

as in shigellosis
medical 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for dysentery
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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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  • Some patients may have gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea and abdominal pain.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Common symptoms of Vibrio infection include diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, fever, chills, dangerously low blood pressure and blistering lesions.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025

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