diarrhea

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Since those with diarrhea can spread salmonella to others, it’s also recommended to avoid sharing food or preparing meals for others, sexual contact, swimming in public pools and to stay home while sick.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

In the communal building where she lived during the blockade of Leningrad, “there was no person or family, no apartment without acute diarrhea, sometimes up to nineteen-twenty times a day.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

It causes inflammation in the digestive tract and can lead to symptoms such as diarrhea, cramping, abdominal pain and weight loss.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

In clinical trials, at least 20% of patients experienced nausea, constipation, diarrhea and vomiting, and between 5% and 10% of patients, depending on which dose they were taking, discontinued treatment.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

The list of “defective” geniuses went on and on: Newton was a sickly, fragile child; John Calvin was severely asthmatic; Darwin suffered crippling bouts of diarrhea and near-catatonic depression.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee