The Oregon Trail is a 1971 video game that is infamous for its difficulty and the likelihood your character will die of ...

If you've ever died of dysentery, you've played The Oregon ... which is in fact not based on the zombie game that's based on The Oregon Trail, but instead emerged from a simple typo.

Cases in Multnomah County among people who have not left the country nearly doubled last year, and the number appears to be rising.

Oregon has been tied to dysentery historically due to the video game Oregon Trail, a classic educational video game first released in 1971, became widely popular for teaching players about the ...

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In the U.S., dysentery is commonly associated with 19th-century pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail — thanks in large part to the classic “Oregon Trail” video game, in which players could ...

Two dozen new cases of Shigella, which can cause dysentery, have been reported in Oregon since the start of the new year, according to health officials. Cases have been on the rise since 2012 and ...

Another seven cases of Shigella, which can cause dysentery, have been reported in Oregon, health officials said. Though data for February has yet to be finalized, health officials said the trend ...

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Cases of dysentery are surging in Oregon, with 40 people sickened by the disease in the Portland area in January alone. There were 158 cases of the illness in Multnomah County in 2024, Oregon Live ...