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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cases of dysentery are surging in Oregon, with 40 people sickened by the disease in the Portland area in January alone. There were 158 cases of the illness in Multnomah County in 2024, Oregon Live ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County is seeing a large spike in winter season Shigella infections for the second year in a row, with more cases recorded in January than in any prior month since 2012, ...

Health officials in Oregon are reportedly battling dozens of cases of dysentery amid a years-long rise in the highly ...

The surge in Portland of the extremely contagious bacterial illness is linked to the number of people experiencing homelessness Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

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 ...