The body is a fortress, but water—water is an invader. In places where the empire extracted but never replenished, where sanitation was never the priority but profit always was, amoebic dysentery thrives. It moves through drinking water, a silent parasite carried by Entamoeba histolytica, a name more scientific than the disease is merciful. It is a traveler’s affliction, “Montezuma’s revenge” to some, as if the land itself seeks retribution. But for those who never left, who drink from these sources daily, it is no brief inconvenience—it is the inheritance of underdevelopment. Liver infection and subsequent amoebic abscesses can occur. It is caused mainly by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica.
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