Edited sentence: " As for Williams saying he accidentally drank floodwaters, Lutz added, “I don’t know anybody that’s tried that to see, but my dogs drank it, and they didn’t have any problems.A 2005 study of the Katrina disaster by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that there were documented reports of “clusters of diarrheal disease" among those in evacuation centers, but no cases of dysentery.A spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals confirmed that contaminated water is a source for dysentery.Brobson Lutz, a former city health director who manned an EMS trailer a block from the French Quarter, said he saw a lot of people with minor injuries, ".The Washington Post has questioned that claim, pointing out that three separate individuals told reporters no gangs infiltrated the Ritz-Carlton.Williams also said that he accidentally ingested flood water and came down with dysentery.Williams claimed that armed gangs had broken into the Ritz, brandishing guns and terrorizing guests while he was a guest.but I don’t recall a single, solitary case of gastroenteritis during Katrina or in the whole month afterward.” Some of Williams' accounts claim Williams was doubled up in the fetal position in between broadcasts due to dysentery