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Died of Dysentery.

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I recall the death as tragic. A swift prompt from my green and black screen.   “We lost Sally!” Dang it. As the mechanical piano played a tune.   Emotions running wild at this point. Why did we not see this coming? How could we have allowed this sickness to spread as though it was a mere cold? Why are we on this trail if only to lose everybody in the process?  The Organ Trail game was a classic. Despite various versions, there seemed to be one common feature for us all, dysentery. OK, that, and what do we do when we get to the river? I always forged it. I never even knew what dysentery was, or that it could be significant enough to kill a person if left unmanaged. I knew it was related to digestion, however, living in the modern times of a video game depicting this disease, it was nothing more to me than some diarrhea. Goggle reports the disease is “rare” and less than 200,000 cases per year in the US. Uncomfortable and embarrassing sure, but deathly and com...