Cases in Multnomah County among people who have not left the country nearly doubled last year, and the number appears to be ...

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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson announced new policies Thursday that will allow traditional first responders to bring Portland’s ...

Dysentery rates have been rising among the Portland population since 2023, and is attributed largely to a lack of public ...

The illness is mostly spread from person to person, and no specific “origin” has been pinpointed for the outbreak.

I walk past the Vern, and the alleyway door is conspicuously covered in human feces. Dysentery is on the rise, not because people don't wash their ass so much as because they are prevented from doing ...

Yes! Yes, it is. The Oregon Trail game was called Oregon Trail because it was based on the Oregon Trail! And yes, people died ...

In the U.S., dysentery is commonly associated with 19th-century pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail — thanks in large part ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warn that dysentery can spread rapidly through various means, including ...

The surge in the extremely contagious bacterial illness in Portland is linked to the number of people experiencing ...

In January alone, health officials reported 40 cases of the bacterial disease, which is characterized by severe diarrhoea.