2.  Intestinal illness.  Associated with -bloody stool -stomach pain -fever.  Caused by a amoebic parasite.  Which is a protozoan  Also referred to as Ameobasis

3.  Was first found in 1857  By Fredrick Lösch.  He found it in the stool of a Russian peasant.  The disease was most completely described in a 1980 report call “amoebic dysentery” written by the American researchers, Henri Amedee Lafleur and William Thomas Councilman.

4.  Yes!  Amoebic dysentery is contagious.  Caught from drinking contaminated water, food, or from contact with an infected person.  There have been over 600 cases in the state of New York each year.

5.  There are some symptoms that come in two different levels.  mild symptoms: bloody stool, nausea, abdominal pain, tenderness, and weight loss  Can appear days to months after contracting the illness.  Serious symptom is liver abbess  Months up to a year after the symptoms are no longer there the parasite might be.

7.  You can prevent it by washing you hands.  Staying at home from school or work if sick.  There is an antibiotic that can be prescribed from a doctor called Metronidazole.  To prevent the disease you can take drugs to kill the pathogen and disease causing agents

8.  Doctors can prescribe antibiotics to a patient how has amoebic dysentery.  Stool sample analysis.  Blood tests.  Ultrasound.  Colonoscopy.

9.  colonoscopy-the use of a thin, lighted instrument inserted into the rectum and the colon is viewed directly then a sample is taken to be tested.  Ultrasound- using the reflections of high frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (used to see babies).

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