dysentery
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It’s more like The Oregon Trail for podcasting, but with less dysentery.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2026
Jones plays Isaac Higgintoot, a member of the American Continental Congress who — appropriately, given his last name — died of dysentery while serving as a captain in the Revolutionary War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Cockroaches carry a wide range of diseases and pathogens including bubonic plague, dysentery, hepatitis, hookworms, leprosy, salmonella and polio.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024
"There is no drinking water," Rouzatullah says, warning there might be outbreaks of waterborne diseases such as typhoid and dysentery.
From BBC ● May 15, 2024
There were outbreaks of camp fever, smallpox, and dysentery amongst the rebel troops.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
"They've got tuberculosis, Salmonella, all the dysenteries," says Rodger Farr, a psychiatrist who ministers to the homeless of Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fevers and dysenteries, snakes and musquitoes, the plantain and the palm, we had left behind.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James
Hence we have all heard of contagious pleurisies, catarrhs, dysenteries, ulcers, &c., and if the doctrines of that writer be received, we shall soon also hear of contagious Cholera Morbus with a vengeance.
When on the other hand the body, though wasted, still holds out, then the bile is expelled, like an exile from a factious state, causing associating diarrhoeas and dysenteries and similar disorders.
From Timaeus by Jowett, Benjamin
Likewise, many of the woeful tragedies of infant summer diarrhea and dysenteries have been tracked to the so-called "innocent house fly."
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
