Amebic Dysentery
Amebic (or amoebic) dysentery, which is also referred to as amebiasis or amoebiasis, is an inflammation of the intestine caused by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica. The severe form ...
Read more
Dysentery
Dysentery is an infectious disease that has ravaged armies, refugee camps, and prisoner-of-war camps throughout history. The disease still is a major problem in developing countries with pri...
Read more
Dysentery
Two forms of dysentery are known, bacillary, or bacterial dysentery and amoebic dysentery. Both are widespread throughout the world and have been known since ancient times. An Egyptian manus...
Read more
Villagers buried their dead where they found them _ including two young boys discovered in one shattered community _ and the first cases of dysentery were reported Friday among survivors of the Sol...
Read more
A boat carrying 400 illegal migrants was finally allowed to dock in Mauritania on Monday, after being stranded for 10 days in international waters off the northwest African country's coast.The wood...
Read more
A boat carrying 400 illegal migrants was finally allowed to dock in Mauritania on Monday, after being stranded for 10 days in international waters off the northwest African country's coast.The wood...
Read more
Harare (dpa) - Student nurses and soldiers have been called in to
run key hospitals in two of Zimbabwe's major cities after doctors and
nurses went on strike to press for hi...
Read more
Jake Suri worried Friday that unless he gets help soon, his meager stores of rice will run out sometime next week and he will have nothing to feed his four children.Suri's thatched house in Hamba w...
Read more
An international relief operation for Solomon Islands tsunami survivors picked up its pace Friday, as reports of dysentery added urgency to the effort.The airport at Gizo, the largest population ce...
Read more
Jakarta (dpa) - Severe flooding that has killed at least 20 people
and forced nearly 340,000 to flee their homes continued to paralyse
much of the Indonesian capital Monday ...
Read more
Teams of doctors are ready to tackle waterborne disease outbreaks in the sodden plains of southern Nepal where at least 71 people have perished in monsoon floods and landslides in the past two week...
Read more
A traveling exhibition of paintings by Sadamichi Hirasawa, who
was sentenced to death over a 1948 mass-poisoning case known as the
''Teigin Incident,'' was launched at a Tokyo art gallery Wed...
Read more
HONG KONG, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A disease transmitted by
sandflies which causes swelling of the liver and spleen and can
lead to death if untreated has become more prevalent in
war-torn Somalia, res...
Read more
Amebic Dysentery
Dysentery
Villagers bury dead in Solomon Islands; first dysentery cases reported
