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Four hundred of Cumberland’s troops died in an epidemic of yellow fever and dysentery, and the British had to withdraw less than three months after their victory.
Yellow fever, dysentery, and scurvy killed a sizable proportion of these unfortunates, who were crammed into filthy floating prisons (called “hulks”) during the hours they weren’t working.
The Portuguese surrendered in 1641, wracked by malaria and dysentery and denied their usual reinforcements from Goa.
In Kushinagar, between Bodh Gaya and his birthplace, he died at age 80 of dysentery, it is said, from eating pork.
There were reports of phage success against dysentery, typhoid, and plague, and bacteriophage therapy had a brief heyday, especially in the 1920s.