dysentery
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It’s more like The Oregon Trail for podcasting, but with less dysentery.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2026
“It contributes to ill health, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, water-related diseases, and it contributes to conflicts over water.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
Cholera, dysentery and typhoid fever are no longer health burdens in the U.S. thanks to a robust water treatment system.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2025
Aid agencies say doctors in Gaza are also struggling to treat a huge caseload of dysentery, pneumonia, and severe skin diseases because of the collapse of the health sector.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
She was lying on a cot, hardly able to move, her dysentery had drained her so thin.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
"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
The numbers who die in their long pilgrimages, either through want or fatigue, or from dysenteries and fevers caught by lying out, and want of accommodation, is incredible.
From Life of William Carey by George Smith
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 Benjamin Jowett
The sun-strokes, the dysenteries, the fevers, the choleras, have affinity for July and August.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Intermittent fevers are extremely common, as are likewise dysenteries, which usually terminate in swellings of the abdomen, and often prove fatal.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt
