Pathogen most wanted poster

Dysentery Most Wanted

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Injury

Injuries of Dysentery mostly consist

of internal scares left over afterward.

Work cited

5)

Hide out

Symptoms include:

Dysentery likes to hide out within the walls of intestines such as the large and small intestine and the colon. It mostly effects the excretory system causing painful vomiting and diarrhea

-Abdominal pain

-Fever and chills

-nausea and vomiting

-watery diarrhea, which can contain

blood mucus or pus

-painful passing of stools

-fatigue

-intermittent constipation

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Facts

9)

-People with dysentery have no

control over the passing

of stool

-Only 10% of infected individuals become ill

-The waste of a human with disease can infect others.

3)

MO

Dysentery Divides and multiplies itself inside the colon of a human and attacks there colon lining. It is spread by lack of hygiene and tainted food

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2)

7)

Methods of identification

Is it considered armed

and dangerous?

Dysentery

Scientific name: Shigella dysentery

The degree of damage can

range from a mild stomach

ache, to a severe sickness

that can last for days. Dysentery

is only lethal if it is not treated. 140

million people are diagnosed every year.

The sex of those people varies as well

as the age.

Dysentery is a severe illness that includes bloody diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and can be life threatening if untreated. Its shape is rod like or “bacillus”. Under a microscope it is faintly pink and orange. Dysentery is a bacterium. It is Gram negative because it resists stain and comes off looking pink. As stated before it has a rod shape, it is most confortable in a moist environment like a colon of a human. Optimal PH for it to live in is 7.2. There are two forms of Dysentery: Amoebiasis and Shigellosis. It requires a 98% oxygen level to live.

4)

Victims

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The bacteria mostly preys on humans with bad hygiene, and humans that eat tainted food. Most people that receive this pathogen live in poor kept conditions in Africa.

Defense

There is no antibiotic for Dysentery

because it passes within a few days.

All you can do is wait for it to pass and

replace the fluids lost from the diarrhea.