Diseases such as malaria were endemic, while blackwater fever, dengue fever, dysentery, yaws, and hookworms were a constant scourge. |
In 1993 he went to Bosnia as Britain's official war artist, returning home after two weeks when he collapsed with dysentery. |
Acute dysentery, typhoid fever and acute hepatitis were the next three most frequently reported diseases. |
Although blood in the stool suggests invasive disease, fever is not a sensitive indicator of dysentery. |
Typhus cases shot through the roof, as did diphtheria, relapsing fever, dysentery, cholera and so on. |
In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. |