An uptick in dysentery, the diarrhea-inducing disease often associated with frontier times past, is on the rise in the Portland, Oregon metro area, according to new health data. Known best for causing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Stock image of a sign in Portland, Oregon. Cases of dysentery are surging in Oregon, with 40 people sickened by the disease ...

Dysentery cases are on the rise in the Portland area. In January, health officials reported 40 cases of the highly contagious bacterial infection in Multnomah County, where Portland is located — up ...

Since January 2025, 40 new cases have been reported, according to a county health official. Shigella bacteria cause shigellosis, which is an illness that impacts the intestines. Two dozen new cases of ...

The St. Louis County Health Department is tracking an outbreak of dysentery in the Duluth area. Bacillary dysentery, caused by the organism shigella, triggers stomach pains and watery diarrhea over ...

A disease once notorious in the classic computer game “Oregon Trail” has resurged with alarming reality in Portland Oregon. Dysentery cases have spiked dramatically in Multnomah County with health ...

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CINCINNATI — An epidemic of an infectious dysentery disease has swept this city in recent months, afflicting mostly young children in diapers and their caregivers. The city health department has ...

Cases of dysentery are surging in Oregon, with 40 people sickened by the disease in the Portland area in January alone. There were 158 cases of the illness in Multnomah County in 2024, Oregon Live ...