"The spread of resistance to cholera and to a potential-untreatable strain of dysentery is also a cause for extreme concern".
The presence of blood in the stool, suggesting dysentery, was also considered as diarrhoea (17).
Cases of diseases like diarrhea, conjunctivitis and dysentery are also increasing due to the extreme heat and potential variations in summer precipitation [ 2, 14, 18].
Ψ Range = township which had lowest percentage/coverage to township which had highest percentage/coverage HMIS data also show that dysentery was also one of the leading causes of morbidity in the study townships.
Dysentery and malaria were also common in Dawson, and an epidemic of typhoid broke out in July and ran rampant throughout the summer.
The Japanese were also suffering from severe supply shortages and an outbreak of dysentery.
5, 19 Many children in the older age groups were also given antibiotics, which is not unexpected given the high incidence of dysentery that was observed in this study.
Manning's last years were also made difficult by physical deterioration; arthritis increasingly affected her, leading to hip replacements in 1976 and in 1979 and she suffered poor health related to amoebic dysentery caught in the Middle East.
In some cases antibiotics were used to treat alternative or additional clinical diagnoses, such as typhoid, respiratory tract infection, or dysentery, but variation was also seen in prescribed medicines for suspected cholera.
Typhoid and dysentery were rampant.
