Ibrahim died of dysentery on October 24.

Soon, there were incidents of typhus, measles, scarlet fever, meningitis, smallpox, dysentery and cholera. Athens' and Piraeus's faces changed.

He reached the Kingdom of Benin, but was seized with dysentery at a village called Gwato, and died there.

The expedition did not reach the Niger until mid August, when only eleven Europeans were left alive the rest had succumbed to fever or dysentery.

It happened that the father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.

We see children who we know will never see the inside of a classroom, and young and old people who will die of dysentery, malaria, tuberculosis and other curable diseases.

The Black Prince returned to England in January 1371 and died on 8 June 1376 (a week before his 46th birthday), after a long lasting illness that was probably amoebic dysentery contracted ten years earlier while campaigning in Spain.

Thanks to new programs of oral rehydration and improved water and sanitation, we have seen marked gains in treating dysentery and other parasitic diseases, contributing to a 27 decline between 1990 and 2007 in mortality rates for children under five.