Dysentery cases on rise in Portland area

The surge in the extremely contagious bacterial illness in Portland is linked to the number of people experiencing ...
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A highly contagious disease is alarmingly on the rise in one US state. Cases of dysentery, also called shigellosis, are ...
In January alone, health officials reported 40 cases of the bacterial disease, which is characterized by severe diarrhoea.
Dysentery has made an unsettling comeback in Portland, Oregon with the diarrhea-inducing disease causing an uptick in cases ...
Severe Shigella cases — also known as dysentery — can be fatal, though the bacterial strains now circulating in Oregon tend to cause milder illness.