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

Dying of dysentery is now more than just a video game meme in Oregon. In a disgusting turn of events straight out of the ...

For those of us of the Oregon Trail game generation (hi, Gen. Xs and us so-called “geriatric” Millennials), we often risked getting dysentery traveling over 2,000 miles by wagon in 1847-18488 ...

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 ...

Stock image of a sign in Portland, Oregon.

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 ...

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 die of ...

thanks to its presence in the ‘80s video game Oregon Trail — where unsuspecting players were often notified they “died of dysentery,” as the illness can cause dehydration. But beyond the punchline is ...

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 ...