Contagious diseases such as measles, typhoid and dysentery were endemic. Typhoid, dysentery and pneumonia were common. The organisms they found included typhoid, cholera, dysentery, and tuberculosis. Outbreaks of typhoid and dysentery spread through contaminated food and water. In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. These included cholera, measles, malaria, dysentery, and schistosomiasis. There were diseases&colon; cholera, measles, smallpox, and dysentery. Scurvy, malaria, dysentery, diarrhea, and other diseases cut their ranks. The Spanish suffered heavy losses due to a cholera or dysentery outbreak. They often handled malaria, dysentery, and respiratory sickness. This tissue destruction can also involve blood vessels leading to bloody diarrhea, amebic dysentery. Gauguin also suffered dysentery and marsh fever. Most of them were suffering from malaria, dysentery and malnutrition. In one week 25 were brought out dead, from dysentery and cholera. Most of the men were suffering from malaria, dysentery and malnutrition.