Symptoms, which sometimes do not develop until days after the initial infection, can be very serious and in rare cases deadly ...

Shigella is a bacteria that causes shigellosis, an intestinal infection. Symptoms of shigellosis include diarrhea, which can be bloody and last for more than three days, as well as fever and ...

the most common form of dysentery infection caused by the shigella bacteria. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in the U.S., approximately half a million people ...

The Zoo announced on its social media pages Tuesday that 3-year-old lowland gorilla Kevin died of a Shigella infection. The ...

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

Infection with Shigella can occur if a person ingests food or water contaminated by human feces, either via contaminated hands or objects which have been in contact with infected feces.

This could be a sign of shigella infection, also known as shigellosis, a bacterial disease that affects the gastrointestinal system and causes stomach pain, diarrhoea, vomiting and fever.

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 ...

Cases in Multnomah County among people who have not left the country nearly doubled last year, and the number appears to be ...

A highly contagious disease is alarmingly on the rise in one US state. Cases of dysentery, also called shigellosis, are hiking up in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon, according to the ...

A music and art festival which swells a small regional town six-fold has been cancelled one day before it was due to start ...

coli and shigella bacteria, hepatitis A virus, the common cold virus, and various sexually transmitted organisms. However, the medical website adds that, if your immune system is healthy and you ...