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Dysentery still IS a disease.
Two types of bacteria that live in water contaminated by feces are called shigella and amoeba. Shigella is the most common bacteria causing dysentery. Dysentery is a disease that affects your digestive system, particularly your intestines, infecting it and causing inflammation. Dysentery also causes dehydration, diarrhea, and fevers. This disease comes in two types; amebic and bacillary dysentery. Amebic is caused by amoeba and is the worst because it can survive outside the human body and spread to others. Bacillary dysentery is caused by shigella and can be mild, severe, or deadly. Bacillary dysentery will kill children who obtain it under the age of five, but for an adult, it just comes and goes. After infecting your intestines, amebic dysentery can also travel to other places through the bloodstream by entering blood vessels in your intestines. It can travel to places like your liver and brain, where it will damage your liver and brain tissues.
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How did you catch dysentery?
Dysentery can be caught by a bacterial infection. Another way dysentery is caught is through eating food or drinking water that has been contaminated with human waste.
Can dysentery kill you?
During the Civil War, dysentery killed more Union soldiers than the Confederacy did. Before penicillin and sulfa were invented, dysentery and diarrhea were fatal diseases--and in the Third World, where medical care is nonexistent, they still are.
How did King Louis Xlll die?
From dysentery.
How long do people have dysentery?
People could have ha dysentery for years. If not treated properly it wouldn't stop until death. Back in the days of slavery their captors would stuff into the anus of those with dysentery a rope with knots to hide the disease from potential buyers.
What pathogen causes amebic dysentery?
Entamoeba histolytica
What is the prefix of dysentery?
The prefix of dysentery is dy. The suffix of dysentery is sentery. Dysentery is an inflammation of the colon or intestines.
What is dysentery what is the sign of dysentery?
explosive diarrhea
Where did dysentery exist?
Dysentery exists in the small intestine
What is a sentence that has the word dysentery in it?
They all suffered from dysentery after drinking the dirty water.
What are the Difference between dysentery and diarrhea?
Dysentery killed many people on the trail to Oregon.
What disease does Entamoeba cause?
Dysentery (aka terrible diarrhea) I think. Maybe other illnesses too -- probably depends where in the body they are.
Dysentery in a sentence?
Sorry, I was suffering from a mild case of dysentery.
Amoebic dysentery and bacillary dysentery differ in the?
etiologic agent
What is a sentence for dysentery?
While serving his sentence in prison, he suffered from dysentery.
Where in the body does dysentery attack?
The gut. The main symptom of dysentery is diarrhea.
What caused pioneers to get dysentery?
Pioneers got dysentery from dirty water and food. When they digested the bacteria, they got very sick and got dysentery.
What insect causes dysentery?
Amoebic dysentery caused by amoeba and bacillary disentery caused by Bacteria `shigella'
