A man intentionally contracted dysentery for science as researchers search for a vaccine against the bacteria Shigella. “I don’t want to make myself out to be Mother Teresa here — would not ...

Despite this seemingly obvious point, there is a new movement to embrace the drinking of something that very well could cause dysentery, diarrhea and a whole host of other potential illnesses ...

There were 40 dysentery cases reported in January, according to the county health department. Last year, there were 158 cases, up from 96 in 2023, 43 in 2022, and 36 in 2021.

Dysentery symptoms include diarrhea, fever, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and stomach cramps. "Dysentery is spread by feces contaminating drinking water or food, and we suspected it could have ...

A 26-year-old man volunteered to drink a dysentery smoothie that would give him life-threatening diarrhea to help scientists making a vaccine: 'It's the most brutally sick I have ever been' ...

Brave Volunteer Drinks "Dysentery Smoothie" to Give Himself "Life-Threatening Diarrhea" "I truly felt like I could not move." Updated 4.30.22, 4:26 PM EDT / Lonnie Lee Hood ...

Avoid sexual contact with anyone who has been suffering from diarrhea or recently recovered; Who is at risk? Most people are able to recover from dysentery within a few days.

Whatever disease killed Edward the Black Prince—heir apparent to the English throne in the mid 1300s, and heralded as the greatest English soldier ever to have lived—is unlikely to have been ...

The St. Louis County Health Department is tracking an outbreak of dysentery in the Duluth area. Bacillary dysentery, caused by the organism shigella, triggers stomach pains and watery diarrhea ...