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Quotes About Dysentery

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
~ Pamela Stephenson
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
~ David Nicholls
A lot of kids died. Dysentery, TB, hunger—you name it. Mostly, that damn dysentery. God, Laila. I saw so many kids buried. There's nothing worse a person can see.
~ Khaled Hosseini
When I was 18, I went to India and was stupid enough to drink the tap water. I ended up with dysentery. It's not an experience I wish to go through again.
~ Tom Parker Bowles
We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The factory owners in Germany have grown wealthy;--dysentery dissolves our bowels.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.
~ Alison Weir
For Washington, at age fifty-five, health was an ongoing issue and one reason he repeatedly gave for his retirement from public life. He had suffered from dysentery, pleurisy, quinsy, severe headaches, fevers, and a mild case of smallpox in the past, and the quinsy and headaches periodically returned.
~ Edward J. Larson
After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.
~ Tae Yoo
The media should be ready to cover every event at the Oberois' residence. If Vivek's dog has dysentery tomorrow, we should be prepared to hear Vivek talk about it on camera for three hours.
~ Sanjay Leela Bhansali
It's my sister. She's sick." "What's wrong with her?" "Dysentery.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
facts about The Oregon Trail, can be found in You Have Died of Dysentery: The Creation of the Oregon Trail—the Iconic Educational Game of the 1980s, by R. Philip Bouchard
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Solomon Island scourges, dysentery, had struck Berande plantation, and he was all alone to cope with it.  Also, he was afflicted himself. By stooping close, still on man-back, he managed to pass through the low doorway.  He took
~ Jack London
my own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery.
~ Jared Diamond
in the winter of 1902 a dysentery epidemic brought by a sailor on the whaling ship Active killed 51 out of the 56 Sadlermiut Eskimos, a very isolated band of people living on Southampton Island in the Canadian Arctic.
~ Jared Diamond
Eighty percent of American forces contracted dysentery in another siege, but they kept fighting. Some had to go into combat with the backsides of their pants cut away.
~ Unknown
The man spoke with an accent, and though I couldn't exactly place it, I knew that he was poor. His voice had snakes in it. And dysentery, and mangoes.
~ David Sedaris