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a serious disease that causes very frequent evacuation of fluid stools and a loss of blood
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Recent Examples of dysentery
Hepatitis and dysentery afflicted people already stricken with grief.
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Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Meyer made a business of insuring people’s lives then poisoning his victims, which caused their illnesses and subsequent deaths to appear to be due to dysentery.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Created in 1971, the game reached cult status among American grade schoolers by the 1990s as one of the first educational computer games allowed in schools — and for its hilariously dark storylines filled with broken arms, typhoid and dysentery.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
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Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Meyer made a business of insuring people’s lives then poisoning his victims, which caused their illnesses and subsequent deaths to appear to be due to dysentery.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Created in 1971, the game reached cult status among American grade schoolers by the 1990s as one of the first educational computer games allowed in schools — and for its hilariously dark storylines filled with broken arms, typhoid and dysentery.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Dysentery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dysentery. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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