If all goes well, you won’t have died of dysentery — unlike in the dysentery-loving Oregon Trail video game — because a brave volunteer took one for the team and tested out a vaccine for the bacteria ...
The St. Louis County Health Department is tracking an outbreak of dysentery in the Duluth area. Bacillary dysentery, caused by the organism shigella, triggers stomach pains and watery diarrhea over ...
A man who drank a diarrhea-inducing smoothie described his 11 days in an inpatient vaccine trial. Jake Eberts, 26, said he'd do it again, for both the money and the humanitarian cause. Shigella ...
Would you do it for money? Twenty-six-year-old Jake Eberts agreed to drink a life-threatening concoction of a cloudy, salty liquid containing Shigella bacteria, which are usually found in the “poop” ...
At exactly 11:04 a.m. on April 6, 2022, I stood within a medical isolation facility and gulped down a solution of Shigella flexneri bacteria, surrounded by half a dozen nurses and doctors in ...
Stone toilet seats from Armon ha-Natziv (A, left) and House of Ahiel (B, right) in Jerusalem's Old City.(A) Y. Billig, (B) F. Vukosavović/Cambridge University Press Scientist believe they found the ...
By analyzing poop from biblical-era toilets in Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the oldest known evidence of a tiny parasite that causes "traveler's diarrhea," a new study finds. The ...