Australian researchers are sounding the alarm over cases of a highly infectious intestinal illness that appear to be resistant to all forms of standard oral antibiotic treatment.

Dysentery is generally treated with antibiotics, but OL reports that the strains circulating in Multnomah County are resistant to treatment.

There were 40 dysentery cases reported in January, according to the county health department. Last year, there were 158 cases, up from 96 in 2023, 43 in 2022, and 36 in 2021.

Scientists who unlocked the genetic code of bacteria grown from a soldier who died of dysentery in World War I say it revealed a superbug already resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics ...

Now, researchers from Yale University have shown that the naturally occurring phage A1-1 kills Shigella flexneri, a major cause of dysentery in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia and selects for ...