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dysentery
noun
A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high volume of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
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Cholera, typhoid, hepatitis and dysentery are common and infant mortality rates are high.
The filter effectively eliminates cholera, typhoid, E coli, amoebic dysentery, and many other bacterial contaminants.
"We are anticipating a number of public health risks from water-borne diseases, specifically hepatitis, typhoid, cholera and dysentery.
Outbreaks of hepatitis, typhoid, cholera or dysentery are "inevitable" in Syria and its neighbours this summer, while cases of measles and other infections are already growing because of the country's broken health system and increasing numbers of displaced people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
They were really worried that dysentery would break out," he says.
The threat to such a big firm is troubling because the city accounts for more than half of foreign direct investment in Vietnam, and exports have helped offset weak consumer demand.In Vietnam urban floods also pose public health risks in the form of outbreaks of cholera or dysentery.
For all her efforts, she was still as awkwardly conspicuous as those pallid, withered Westerners who came to India to find spiritual peace and caught dysentery instead.
Immediately after receiving a semblance of legal title in 1841 under the Convention of Chuenpi, the British began their first municipal building project, a cemetery for the legions of colonisers taken by dysentery and malaria.
Only Thomas More and his political rival, Thomas Cromwell, were actually executed by Henry VIII, and Cardinal Wolsey, who died of fright and dysentery a year after his ignominious disgrace, was the earliest victim.Despite this artifice, Mr Wilson succeeds in recreating a sense of what Henry VIII was like and how power was deployed in his reign.
Many who subsisted on bitter wild oranges succumbed to cholera, malaria and dysentery.
Within a few years of their discovery at the turn of the 19th century, phage-therapy centres had opened up around the world, and phages were deployed against everything from dysentery to bubonic plague.
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