Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman. Oklahoma's Dede Westbrook (11) runs on a reverse and is tackled by Jordan Thomas (7) during the annual University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) Spring Game college football game at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., on Saturday, April 11, 2015. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman.
What is dysentery? Dysentery broadly refers to infectious gastrointestinal disorders characterized by inflammation of the intestines, chiefly the colon. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines dysentery as any episode of diarrhea in which blood is present in loose, watery stools. Dysentery is spread among humans through contaminated food and water. Once a person is infected, the infectious organism lives in the intestines and is passed in the stool of the infected person. With some infections, animals can also be infected and spread the disease to humans.
Report Abuse. The most common type of dysentery is Shigella dysenteria type 1. I got the following from the attached link: Sd1 has caused epidemics of dysentery throughout the world. It caused a 4-year epidemic in Central America beginning in 1968 that resulted in more than 500 000 cases and at least 20 000 deaths.