Dysentery cases on rise in Portland area

Dysentery rates have been rising among the Portland population since 2023, and is attributed largely to a lack of public ...
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 ...
The surge in Portland of the extremely contagious bacterial illness is linked to the number of people experiencing ...
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Dysentery, or shigellosis, is primarily characterised by bloody diarrhea. Multnomah County has witnessed a steady rise in ...
Dysentery has made an unsettling comeback in Portland, Oregon with the diarrhea-inducing disease causing an uptick in cases ...
Severe Shigella cases — also known as dysentery — can be fatal, though the bacterial strains now circulating in Oregon tend to cause milder illness.