Africa - Voice of America: New Dysentery Threat Emerges

Africa - Voice of America africa

New Dysentery Threat Emerges Aug 6th 2012, 16:32 It's known that clean water and sanitation can bring a sharp decline in dysentery cases in developing countries. But it's not enough to stop the spread of the disease in countries undergoing rapid development and industrialization. Dysentery, a diarrheal disease, is primarily associated with developing countries where it kills more than one million people a year. Most of them are young children. The bacterium that generally causes this type of dysentery is known as Shigella flexneri. As ... Media files: 6F59219C-D643-433C-A12D-E64886EF10ED_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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