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Doctors are sounding the alarm over a drug-resistant superbug that is spreading across the US. Shigellosis is transmitted ...

Cases of drug-resistant Shigella infections are increasing in the United States in a trend that the Centers for Disease ...

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A potentially fatal virus that causes fever, vomiting and severe watery diarrhea among small children is raging throughout Northern California, recent data shows. “It’s extremely contagious,” Dr.

A woman in her sixties presented to the ICU with hypotension, dehydration, and acute kidney injury 20 days after experiencing watery diarrhea. Initial investigations revealed no evident infectious ...

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