Where is Dysentery most common?
The most common type of dysentery is Shigella dysenteria type 1. I got the following from the attached link: Sd1 has caused epidemics of dysentery throughout the world. It caused a 4-year epidemic in Central America beginning in 1968 that resulted in more than 500 000 cases and at least 20 000 deaths. No epidemics have occurred in the region since then, but Sd1 continues to occur sporadically in the Western hemisphere. In Africa, epidemic dysentery due to Sd1 appeared in eastern Zaire in 1979 and has subsequently been confirmed in Angola, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sao Tom‚ and Principe, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
