Oregon, Dysentery

Health officials in Oregon are battling cases of dysentery amid a years-long rise in the highly contagious, diarrhea-inducing disease. There have been 40 confirmed cases of shigellosis, an infectious ...
Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.
In January alone, health officials reported 40 cases of the bacterial disease, which is characterized by severe diarrhoea.
Dysentery, or shigellosis, is primarily characterised by bloody diarrhea. Multnomah County has witnessed a steady rise in ...
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.