Cases of "extensively drug-resistant" Shigella bacteria are on the rise and pose a "serious public health threat," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned last month. In February of 2022 ...

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 ...

Another seven cases of Shigella, which can cause dysentery, have been reported in Oregon, health officials said. Though data for February has yet to be finalized, health officials said the trend shows ...

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, ...

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.

An uptick in dysentery, the diarrhea-inducing disease often associated with frontier times past, is on the rise in the Portland, Oregon metro area, according to new health data. Known best for causing ...