The Central Security policemen wear black and guard embassies, hotels, and public buildings. No matter what your precautions, a change in water and diet can result in diarrhea and nausea. It is advisable to stay away from raw fruit and vegetables, and drink plenty of liquids. Amebic dysentery, caused by a microscopic single-celled animal, an amoebae, is a much more serious matter. The amoebae are ingested with unclean food or drink.
Symptoms are similar to gippy tummy but the condition persists and can cause serious damage.
With proper treatment recovery is quick. Drink bottled water, which is inexpensive and readily available. Bilharzia is caused by blood flukes or flat worms which enter the body of persons wading or swimming in still or slow-moving water. Bilharzia is curable as long as reinfection does not occur. Malaria is not a problem in Egypt, although it is on the increase throughout the world.