Shigellosis is a virulent bacterial disease that is caused by a strain of bacteria of the genus Shigella. Bacillary dysentery or Shigellosis is a common cause of gastro-enteritis worldwide and can ...

Since January 2025, 40 new cases have been reported, according to a county health official. Shigella bacteria cause shigellosis, which is an illness that impacts the intestines. Two dozen new cases of ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced this year’s first clustered outbreak of bacillary dysentery — a serious and highly contagious bacterial infection of the colon — brought to ...

Shigella is a bacteria which can cause bacillary dysentery or shigellosis which is the most common type of dysentery in the UK. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, ...

A rise in dysentery cases, particularly shigellosis, has been reported in Portland, Oregon, affecting vulnerable populations such as the homeless and drug users. Health officials note resistance to ...

Pretty Virginia Loomis, 18, soft-voiced night club singer, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, operated on for appendicitis. Eight days later she was dead of amebic dysentery. Broadway wailed its grief.

A three-year-old girl died in Kerala's Kozhikode district earlier this month from Shigellosis, a bacterial infection that causes severe, often bloody, diarrhoea. The infection can occur with or ...