The illness is mostly spread from person to person, and no specific “origin” has been pinpointed for the outbreak.

Dysentery rates have been rising among the Portland population since 2023, and is attributed largely to a lack of public ...

Zydus Lifesciences on Tuesday said it will undertake development of a combination vaccine against shigellosis and typhoid.

Zydus Lifesciences to develop first combination vaccine for typhoid and shigellosis with Gates Foundation support.

Severe Shigella cases — also known as dysentery — can be fatal, though the bacterial strains now circulating in Oregon tend to cause milder illness.

Health officials in Oregon are battling cases of dysentery amid a years-long rise in the highly contagious, diarrhea-inducing disease. There have been 40 confirmed cases of shigellosis, an infectious ...

Leveraging its World Health Organization (WHO)-prequalified Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (ZyVac TCV) and a Shigella vaccine from ...

A popular music and arts festival has been cancelled at the 11th hour, days after getting permit approval from the local ...

The surge in the extremely contagious bacterial illness in Portland is linked to the number of people experiencing ...

Typhoid is already a disease of concern globally and various endemic countries already have TCV as part of their national ...

A rise in dysentery cases, particularly shigellosis, has been reported in Portland, Oregon, affecting vulnerable populations ...

A highly contagious disease is alarmingly on the rise in one US state. Cases of dysentery, also called shigellosis, are ...