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dysentery

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A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

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Again the crew suffered from dysentery due to poor drinking water, resulting in three more deaths by the time that she reached Manila on 18 September, spending a week there preparing to enter the Pacific Ocean. Source: Internet

After further military adventures, however, he contracted dysentery in Spain in 1370. Source: Internet

Although he had been invested as such on 8 August 1137, a messenger gave him the news that Louis VI had died of dysentery on 1 August while Prince Louis and Eleanor were making a tour of the provinces. Source: Internet

In September 1668, Samuel Megapolensis, the pastor of the Dutch church in the newly created city of New York, wrote to a friend about how the Lord had “visited us with dysentery, which is even now increasing in virulence. Source: Internet

An estimate of 15,000 to 30,000, warning of an inevitable dysentery epidemic, comes from: citation The organization, today known for its quick response in an emergency, arrived three days after the Red Cross had set up a relief mission. Source: Internet

And from the foetid depths of this fusty ejecta – sourced in the 1990s during an outbreak of winter dysentery – the Ohio study sequenced none other than the full-length genome of a coronavirus. Source: Internet

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