Editing Dysentery (section)

==Notable cases==
[[File:A Soviet soldier dies of dysentery as a result of eating unw Wellcome L0032151.jpg|thumb|A [[Red Army]] soldier dies of dysentery after eating unwashed vegetables. This is a common way of contracting dysentery. From a health advisory pamphlet given to soldiers.]]

* '''580''': Childesinda, son of [[Chilperic I]], Frankish king, died of dysentery as a child
* '''580''': [[Austregilde]], Frankish queen, died of dysentery. According to [[Gregory of Tours]] she blamed her doctors for her death and asked her husband, King [[Guntram]], to have the doctors executed after she died, which he did.<ref>Gregory of Tours. ''A History of the Franks'', Pantianos Classics, 1916</ref>
* '''642''': [[Cyrus of Alexandria]], [[Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria]] and [[List of governors of Roman Egypt|governor of Egypt]], died of dysentery on 21 March 642.
* '''685''': [[Constantine IV]], the Byzantine emperor, died of dysentery on September 685.
* '''1183''': [[Henry the Young King]] died of dysentery at the castle of [[Martel, Lot|Martel]] on 11 June 1183.
* '''1216''': [[John, King of England]] died of dysentery at [[Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire|Newark Castle]] on 19 October 1216.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Warren WL |year=1991 |title=King John |location=London |publisher=Methuen |isbn=978-0-413-45520-8 |page=253 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt5HPgAACAAJ&pg=PA253 }}</ref>
* '''1270''': [[Louis IX]] of France died of dysentery in [[Tunis]] while commanding his troops for the [[Eighth Crusade]] on 25 August 1270.
* '''1307''': [[Edward I of England]] caught dysentery on his way to the Scottish border and died in his servants' arms on 7 July 1307.
* '''1322''': [[Philip V of France]] died of dysentery at the [[Abbey of Longchamp]] (site of the present hippodrome in the [[Bois de Boulogne]]) in Paris while visiting his daughter, Blanche, who had taken her vows as a nun there in 1322. He died on 3 January 1322.
* '''1376''': [[Edward the Black Prince]], son of Edward III of England and heir to the English throne. Died of apparent dysentery in June, after a months-long period of illness during which he predicted his own imminent death, in his 46th year.
* '''1422''': King [[Henry V of England#Death|Henry V of England]] died suddenly on 31 August 1422 at the [[Château de Vincennes]], apparently from dysentery,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_v_king.shtml|title=BBC – History – Henry V|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213161713/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_v_king.shtml|archive-date=13 February 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref> which he had contracted during the [[siege of Meaux]]. He was 35 years old and had reigned for nine years.
* '''1536''': [[Erasmus]], Dutch renaissance humanist and theologian. At [[Basel]].<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Desiderius Erasmus|name-list-style=vanc }}</ref>
* '''1596''': Sir [[Francis Drake]], [[vice admiral]], died of dysentery on 28 January 1596 whilst anchored off the coast of [[Portobelo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/drake_francis.shtml|title=BBC – History – Sir Francis Drake|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212034636/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/drake_francis.shtml|archive-date=12 February 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* '''1605''': [[Akbar]], ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia, died of dysentery. On 3 October 1605, he fell ill with an attack of dysentery, from which he never recovered. He is believed to have died on or about 27 October 1605, after which his body was buried in [[Tomb of Akbar the Great|a mausoleum]] in [[Agra]], present-day [[India]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Majumdar|1984|pp=168–169}}</ref>
* '''1675''': [[Jacques Marquette]] died of dysentery on his way north from what is today Chicago, traveling to the mission where he intended to spend the rest of his life.<ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Engels A |title=Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) and Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) |work=Discoverers Web  |url=http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/jolmar.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308110354/http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/jolmar.html |archive-date=8 March 2013 }}</ref>
* '''1676''': [[Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist)|Nathaniel Bacon]] died of dysentery after taking control of Virginia following [[Bacon's Rebellion]]. He is believed to have died in October 1676, allowing Virginia's ruling elite to regain control.<ref>{{cite book|title=Give Me Liberty! An American History |vauthors=Foner E |year=2012 |publisher=W. W. Norton and Company|location=New York; London|edition=brief|isbn=9780393920321}}</ref>
* '''1680''': [[Shivaji]], founder and ruler of the [[Maratha Empire]] of South Asia, died of dysentery on 3 April 1680. In 1680, Shivaji fell ill with fever and dysentery, dying around 3–5 April 1680 at the age of 52 on the eve of [[Hanuman Jayanti]]. He was cremated at [[Raigad Fort]], where his [[Samadhi]] is built in [[Mahad]], Raigad district of Maharashtra, India.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Sarkar J |author-link=Jadunath Sarkar |title=Shivaji and His Times|url=https://archive.org/details/shivajihistimes00sarkrich|edition=Second|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|location=London|year=1920 |orig-year=1919 |ref={{sfnref|Sarkar, Shivaji and His Times|1920}}}}</ref>{{sfn|Sarkar, Shivaji and His Times|1920|p=382}}
* '''1827''': [[Nandi (mother of Shaka)|Queen Nandi kaBhebhe]], (mother of [[Shaka|Shaka Zulu]]) died of dysentery on 10 October 1827.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Morris DR |title=The washing of the spears : a history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its fall in the Zulu War of 1879 |date=1998 |publisher=Da Capo Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-306-80866-1 |edition=1st}}</ref>[[File:Kanyu Riverside Camp- Dysentery Ward Art.IWMART16893.jpg|thumb|Allied [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]] with dysentery in a Japanese camp in [[Thailand in World War II|Thailand]] in 1943]]
* '''1873''': The explorer [[David Livingstone]] died of dysentery on 1 May 1873.<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Livingstone D |veditors=Waller H |title=The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death: Continued by a Narrative of His Last Moments and Sufferings, Obtained from His Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi; in Two Volumes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_dgAAAAcAAJ|year=1874|publisher=J. Murray}}</ref>
* '''1885''': [[Alfonso XII]] King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to 25 November 1885 died of dysentery at the age of 27 
* '''1896''': [[Phan Đình Phùng]], a [[Vietnamese people|Vietnamese]] revolutionary who led rebel armies against [[French colonial empire|French colonial forces]] in Vietnam, died of dysentery as the French surrounded his forces on 21 January 1896.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vietnamese anticolonialism, 1885–1925 |vauthors=Marr DG |year=1970 |publisher=University of California |location=Berkeley, California|isbn=978-0-520-01813-6 |page=68 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lu_TB0X8B4YC&pg=PA68 }}</ref>
* '''1910''': [[Luo Yixiu]], first wife of [[Mao Zedong]], died of dysentery on 11 February 1910. She was 20 years old.{{sfnm|1a1=Chang|1a2=Halliday|1y=2005|1p=7|2a1=Pantsov|2a2=Levine|2y=2012|2pp=28, 589|3a1=Lü|3y=2009|3p=[http://dangshi.people.com.cn/GB/144956/11272977.html 2]}}
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* '''1930''': The French explorer and writer [[Michel Vieuchange]] died of dysentery in [[Agadir]] on 30 November 1930, on his return from the "forbidden city" of [[Smara]]. He was nursed by his brother, Doctor [[Jean Vieuchange]], who was unable to save him. The notebooks and photographs, edited by Jean Vieuchange, went on to become bestsellers.<ref>{{Cite book |vauthors=de Meaux A |year=2004 |title=L'ultime désert: vie et mort de Michel Vieuchange |language=fr |publisher=Phébus |location=Paris |isbn=978-2-85940-997-5 |pages=29, 245–249 & 253 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |vauthors=Vieuchange M |author-link1=Michel Vieuchange |year=1988 |orig-year=1932 |title=Smara: The Forbidden City |others=Fletcher Allen, Edgar (translation); [[Jean Vieuchange|Vieuchange, Jean]] (editor; introduction, notes, postscript); [[Paul Claudel|Claudel, Paul]] (preface). |publisher=Ecco |location=New York |edition=Reprint |isbn=978-0-88001-146-4 }}</ref>
* '''1942''': The [[Selarang Barracks incident]] in the summer of 1942 during [[World War II]] involved the forced crowding of 17,000 [[United Kingdom|Anglo]]-[[Australia]]n [[prisoners-of-war]] (POWs) by their [[Empire of Japan|Japanese captors]] in the areas around the barracks square for nearly five days with little water and no sanitation after the Selarang Barracks POWs refused to sign a pledge not to escape. The incident ended with the surrender of the Australian commanders due to the spreading of dysentery among their men.<ref name="Thompson">{{cite book |vauthors=Thompson P |title=The Battle For Singapore—The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II |publisher=United Kingdom: Portraits Books |year=2005 |pages=389–390 |isbn=978-0-7499-5085-9 }}</ref>