Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An uptick in dysentery, the diarrhea-inducing disease often associated with frontier times past, is on the rise in the Portland, ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Kaohsiung City Government Department of Health on Monday (June 24) confirmed that a man had died of amoebic dysentery. Local media reported a year ago that the examination ...

Amoebic dysentery, known in the 17th and 18th centuries as the bloody flux, was one of the most lethal diseases that could break out aboard a slave ship, and it stalked the captives on board the sloop ...

Scientists are harnessing the natural healing power of medicinal plants to find a solution. Amoebiasis is a common intestinal infection caused by the microscopic parasite Entamoeba histolytica. While ...

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Had the U. S. been informed two months ago that Chicago was suffering an outbreak of amebic dysentery, a good many people might have stayed away from the city, with consequent loss to its Fair, hotels ...

Children with lower diversity of microbial species in their intestines are more susceptible to severe infection with the Entamoeba histolytica parasite, according to a new study. Children with lower ...

To successfully infect its host, the rabies virus must move from the nerve ending to the nerve cell body where it can replicate. In a study published July 20 in the journal PLoS Pathogens, researchers ...

IN Durban there is a reversal of the customary incidence of amœbiasis. It is generally stated that an indigenous population is less susceptible to this disease, but in Durban the native African is ...