The illness is mostly spread from person to person, and no specific “origin” has been pinpointed for the outbreak.

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 ...

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

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

In the U.S., dysentery is commonly associated with 19th-century pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail — thanks in large part to the classic “Oregon Trail” video game, in which players could die of ...