dysentery

You spend your days watching your squad mates shit their guts out from dysentery.

In the early days, it was easy for me with the flood fresh in my mind, I could say, "at least I didn't get dysentery.

Yes, you have a map with routes, but there is also weather, broken wagon wheels, dysentery, bandits, you name it.

Using an average HN user as your test case just shows how biased your perspective is. Personally I'd rather not be born than be born in a place where I have a high change of dying of malaria, or dysentery.

Do significantly more US children die from dysentery than Japanese children?

There, thousands were beaten to death or died from malnutrition, typhoid, tuberculosis and dysentery.

It can be hard to be one of the first to brave new frontiers, but don’t worry - there’s no river-crossings or dysentery in store for you, just awesome home-brewed espresso.

Drinking colloidal silver killed my amoebic dysentery - a rather horrible strain from drinking Egyptian water - within a day.

For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'.

Also it is designed to facilitate stool examination, as it was invented when huge dysentery epidemics spread through Europe.

I think there must be a "conservation of worry" law - as the world gets safer, as fewer people are starving or dying of dysentery or whatever, we still need to worry the same amount, so we find new things to worry about - no matter how arcane and obscure they have to be - and invest them with undue importance.