How is dysentery Spread?
Amoebic dysentery is passed on by carelessness of people and negligible hygiene. The Entamoeba histolytica amoeba and the shigella bacteria often thrive in food and water contaminated by human feces. As these parasites live in the large intestine, they travel in the feces of infected people, and a number of times bacillary dysentery has occurred as the feces contaminate the water supplies where sanitation is poor, or where sewage mixes with drinking water. Amoebic dysentery can also occur due to contamination of fruits and vegetables in areas where human feces are used as fertilizer or where contaminated food is consumed without adequate heat treatment. Fruits and vegetables grown with contaminated water are another common source of disease. When these cysts reach the intestine of another person the individual amoebae are released from the cysts and now they are easily able to cause infection. Infections can also spread through households, through dirty hands of infected people especia
