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 ...

Dysentery rates have been rising among the Portland population since 2023, and is attributed largely to a lack of public ...

I walk past the Vern, and the alleyway door is conspicuously covered in human feces. Dysentery is on the rise, not because people don't wash their ass so much as because they are prevented from doing ...

Yes! Yes, it is. The Oregon Trail game was called Oregon Trail because it was based on the Oregon Trail! And yes, people died ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warn that dysentery can spread rapidly through various means, including ...

In the U.S., dysentery is commonly associated with 19th-century pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail — thanks in large part ...

The surge in the extremely contagious bacterial illness in Portland is linked to the number of people experiencing ...

In January alone, health officials reported 40 cases of the bacterial disease, which is characterized by severe diarrhoea.

"Housing is related to nearly all aspects of health, including infectious diseases. Lacking housing creates a context that ...

A highly contagious disease is alarmingly on the rise in one US state. Cases of dysentery, also called shigellosis, are ...

A new report by the Multnomah County Health Department shows dysentery is on the rise in the Portland metro area.