The outbreaks are largely targeted in Multnomah County, which hosts Portland, the state's largest city. Dysentery, which is a ...

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

FILE - Shigella dysenteriae, bacteria which causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis, seen under a microscope. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) ...

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 ...

Cases of dysentery have been on the rise in Oregon ... Throughout 2024, high case counts reflected two separate outbreaks of different strains of Shigella. "The cases that we are seeing in 2025 ...

Dysentery has made an unsettling comeback in ... that the one causing more fatal disease is not spotted in the current outbreak. However, the strains circulating in Multnomah County are resistant ...

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 ...