Dysentery cases are on the rise in the Portland area. In January, health officials reported 40 cases of the highly contagious bacterial infection in Multnomah County, where Portland is located — up ...

Some major symptoms, like diarrhea, are consistent across infection types. Some dysentery symptoms, however, depend on if you have a parasitic or bacterial infection, according to the Cleveland ...

Dysentery rates have been rising among the Portland population since 2023, and is attributed largely to a lack of public ...

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 ...

But beyond the punchline is a serious illness that's extremely contagious: Symptoms of dysentery —or shigellosis — include frequent, possibly bloody diarrhea, fever, and stomach pain ...

The illness is mostly spread from person to person, and no specific “origin” has been pinpointed for the outbreak.

Cases of dysentery have been on the rise in Oregon since 2012. The cases spread from Multnomah County to the Portland Metro ...

Dysentery technically known as shigellosis manifests as a highly contagious bacterial infection causing severe symptoms including intense fever painful abdominal cramps persistent vomiting and ...